More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 126
And Jan bought his wife more cows, and more pigs, and they lived happy ever after.
Who acts: Jan, door · What happens: buy, live · To what, where: wife
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jan, door), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 bought | cc |
| 2 | Jan | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bought | nsubj |
| 3 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bought | obj |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 cows | amod |
| 7 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wife | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pigs | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pigs | cc |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 pigs | amod |
| 11 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bought | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lived | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lived | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lived | nsubj |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bought | conj |
| 16 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lived | xcomp |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 after | advmod |
| 18 | after | after | ADV | _ | 15 lived | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | Jan | gentleman's wife and more cows | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past | door | after, happy 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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