The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 69
And a beautiful palace was built, and the Princess was married to Nigel in her gold dress, and they all lived happily as long as was good for them.
Who acts: people · What happens: build, marry, live, be · To what, where: beautiful palace, Princess, Nigel, gold dress
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | _ | 6 built | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 palace | det |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 palace | amod |
| 4 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 built | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 built | aux:pass |
| 6 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 married | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 married | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 married | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 married | aux:pass |
| 12 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 built | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Nigel | case |
| 14 | Nigel | Nigel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 married | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 dress | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 dress | nmod:poss |
| 17 | gold | gold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dress | amod |
| 18 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 married | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lived | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lived | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lived | nsubj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 lived | advmod |
| 23 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 built | conj |
| 24 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 23 lived | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 long | advmod |
| 26 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 lived | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 good | mark |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 good | cop |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 long | advcl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 good | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | a beautiful palace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | marry | past · passive | the Princess | Nigel | Princess's gold dress | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to nigel=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | live | past | people | happily, long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | people not said here | for people; good property | tree rules |
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 Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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