The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 33
Father Peter also stayed quietly with them, living, as everybody believed, upon the generosity of his rich son-in law.
Who acts: Father, everybody · What happens: stay, live, believe · To what, where: generosity
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, everybody), 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 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Father | flat |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 stayed | advmod |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 4 stayed | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 living | punct |
| 9 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stayed | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 believed | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 believed | mark |
| 12 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 believed | nsubj |
| 13 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stayed | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 generosity | punct |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 generosity | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 generosity | det |
| 17 | generosity | generosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 believed | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 son | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 son | amod |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 generosity | nmod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 law | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 law | case |
| 24 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 son | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | Father | with vines = vine; quietly property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | Father not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | believe | past | everybody | the generosity of father's rich son in law | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer generosity=Stimulus |
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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