The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 31
And they obeyed him, and were happy and content, and tried to make the people of the land happy and contented too.
Who acts: words · What happens: obey, be, try, make, content · To what, where: trouble, people
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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 | _ | 3 obeyed | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 obeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 obeyed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 happy | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 happy | cc |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happy | cop |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 obeyed | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 content | cc |
| 10 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 happy | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tried | cc |
| 13 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obeyed | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tried | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 land | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 land | det |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 people | nmod |
| 21 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 make | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 contented | cc |
| 23 | contented | content | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 tried | conj |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 contented | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | words = word | trouble | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | happy property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 4 | try | past | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | the people of the land | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product | ||||
| 6 | content | past | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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