The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 68
Meanwhile the two elder sisters had married the two friends of the king, and were the mothers of little daughters.
What happens: marry, be · To what, where: two elder sisters, mothers
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: 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 7 married | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sisters | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sisters | nummod |
| 4 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sisters | compound |
| 5 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 married | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 married | aux |
| 7 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 friends | det |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 friends | nummod |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 married | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 king | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 friends | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mothers | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mothers | cc |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 mothers | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mothers | det |
| 18 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 married | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 daughters | case |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 daughters | amod |
| 21 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 mothers | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · perfect · passive | the two elder sisters | meanwhile property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the mothers | of little daughters | tree rules |
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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