More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 73
So she did; and they drove off to their castle, where they lived happy ever after.
Who acts: plenty, Feathers · What happens: do, drive off, live · To what, where: castle
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plenty, Feathers), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 drove | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 drove | cc |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 drove | nsubj |
| 7 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 drove | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 castle | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 castle | nmod:poss |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drove | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lived | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 lived | advmod |
| 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 | 7 drove | 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 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | plenty | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | drive off | past | Feathers = feather | Feathers's castle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to castle=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | live | past | Feathers = feather | 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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