The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 91
He and his beloved wife lived in the greatest happiness and peace, and rose to great honour in the town.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: live, rise · To what, where: greatest happiness, town
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 (Peter), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wife | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wife | amod |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 He | conj |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 happiness | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 happiness | det |
| 9 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 happiness | amod |
| 10 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 peace | cc |
| 12 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 happiness | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rose | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rose | cc |
| 15 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 honour | case |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 honour | amod |
| 18 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rose | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 town | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 town | det |
| 21 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rose | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Peter | the greatest happiness and peace | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in happiness=Location | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | Peter not said here | the town | to great honour | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in town=Location |
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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