The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 24

Even when the ill-matched couple were presently blessed with children, his happiness was but short-lived, the savage temper of his quarrelsome wife seemed to blight them from the first, and they died like little kids in a cold winter.

Who acts: savage temper, children · What happens: match, bless, live, seem, blight, die · To what, where: matched couple, happiness, children, first, quarrelsome wife

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (savage temper, children), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	10 blessed	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 blessed	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 couple	det
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 matched	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 ill	punct
6	matched	match	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 couple	amod
7	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blessed	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 blessed	aux:pass
9	presently	presently	ADV	_	10 blessed	advmod
10	blessed	bless	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 children	case
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 blessed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lived	punct
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 happiness	nmod:poss
15	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lived	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lived	aux:pass
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 lived	cc
18	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lived	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 short	punct
20	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 blessed	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 temper	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 temper	det
23	savage	savage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 temper	compound
24	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 seemed	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 wife	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wife	nmod:poss
27	quarrelsome	quarrelsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 wife	amod
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 temper	nmod
29	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 blessed	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	31 blight	mark
31	blight	blight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 seemed	xcomp
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 blight	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 first	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 first	det
35	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 blight	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 died	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 died	cc
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 died	nsubj
39	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 blessed	conj
40	like	like	ADP	_	42 kids	case
41	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 kids	amod
42	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 died	obl
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 winter	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 winter	det
45	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 winter	amod
46	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 died	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 blessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	match	participle						vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	bless	past · passive		the matched couple			with children; presently property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	live	past · passive		Peter's happiness				vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location
4	seem	past	the savage temper of Peter's quarrelsome wife					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	blight	to-infinitive	the savage temper of Peter's quarrelsome wife not said here	children = child	the first			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	die	past	children = child			winter	like little kids	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	temper			Peter's quarrelsome wife				nom temper «feeling transitive»: of=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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