English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 21
I can make butter and cheese, which you shall sell at market, and we shall then be able to live very comfortably.”
Who acts: I, butter, we · What happens: make, sell, be, live · To what, where: butter, market
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, butter, we), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cheese | cc |
| 6 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 butter | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sell | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 sell | nsubj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 sell | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 sell | aux |
| 11 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 butter | parataxis |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 market | case |
| 13 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sell | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 able | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 able | cc |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 able | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 able | aux |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 able | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 able | cop |
| 20 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 make | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 live | mark |
| 22 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 able | xcomp |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 comfortably | advmod |
| 24 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 22 live | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | can | I | butter and cheese | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=Product | ||||
| 2 | sell | shall | butter and cheese | market | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at market=Asset | ||||
| 3 | is | shall | we | then | able property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | we not said here | comfortably property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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