The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 68
But the three soldiers took the little whip, whipped as much money as they wanted, and lived happily to their lives end.
Who acts: three soldiers, soldiers, lives · What happens: take, whip, want, live, end · To what, where: little whip, much money
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three soldiers, soldiers, lives), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 took | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 soldiers | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 soldiers | nummod |
| 4 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 whip | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 whip | amod |
| 8 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 whipped | punct |
| 10 | whipped | whip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 money | amod |
| 13 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 whipped | obj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 wanted | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wanted | nsubj |
| 16 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 whipped | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lived | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lived | cc |
| 19 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 20 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 19 lived | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 24 end | mark |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 lives | nmod:poss |
| 23 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 end | nsubj |
| 24 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 lived | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the three soldiers | the little whip | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whip=Theme | ||||
| 2 | whip | past | the three soldiers not said here | much money | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent money=Material | ||||
| 3 | want | past | soldiers = soldier | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | live | past | the three soldiers not said here | happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | end | present | soldiers's lives | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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