More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 42
All went well that didn't go ill," is a somewhat cynical formula given by Mrs. Balfour, while the Scotch have "they lived happy and died happy, and never drank out of a dry cappie."
Who acts: Scotch, Endings · What happens: go, not go, be, give, have, live · To what, where: cynical formula, dry cappie · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scotch, Endings), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 went | advmod |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 formula | advcl |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 go | advmod |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | advcl |
| 8 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 go | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 formula | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 formula | det |
| 13 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 14 cynical | advmod |
| 14 | cynical | cynical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 formula | amod |
| 15 | formula | formula | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 formula | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Mrs. | case |
| 18 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 given | obl:agent |
| 19 | Balfour | Balfour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Mrs. | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 have | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Scotch | det |
| 23 | Scotch | scotch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 have | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 given | parataxis |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 lived | punct |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 lived | nsubj |
| 27 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 have | parataxis |
| 28 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lived | xcomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 died | cc |
| 30 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 lived | conj |
| 31 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 died | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 drank | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 drank | cc |
| 34 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 35 drank | advmod |
| 35 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 lived | conj |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 cappie | case |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 cappie | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 cappie | det |
| 39 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 cappie | amod |
| 40 | cappie | cappie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 drank | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 formula | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 formula | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | well property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not go | past · do-support | ill property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | a cynical formula | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | participle | a cynical formula not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | the Scotch | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | live | past | Endings = ending | happy property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | die | past | Endings = ending not said here | happy property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 8 | not drink out | past | Endings = ending not said here | a dry cappie | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cappie=Patient |
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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