The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 87
For many years they all lived happily together, and then the queen fell ill, and knew that she would never get better.
Who acts: people, queen · What happens: live, fall, know, not get · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, queen), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 6 lived | advmod |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 lived | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fell | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 fell | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 queen | det |
| 13 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 15 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fell | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knew | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 knew | cc |
| 18 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 get | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 get | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 get | aux |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 get | advmod |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 knew | ccomp |
| 24 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 get | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | people | year | happily, together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | fall | past | the queen | then | ill property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | know | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | not get | would | queen | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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