The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 28

And the kettle brought them both luck, and everything went well with them till they died, which they did when they were very old, respected by everyone.

Who acts: kettle, everything, people · What happens: bring, go, die, do, be, respect · To what, where: people

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kettle, everything, people), 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	_	4 brought	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kettle	det
3	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	nsubj
4	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brought	obj
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 luck	det
7	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brought	conj
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 went	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	obl
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 died	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 died	nsubj
17	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 went	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 did	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 did	obj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 did	nsubj
21	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 died	conj
22	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 old	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 old	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 old	cop
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 old	advmod
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 did	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 respected	punct
28	respected	respect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 old	conj
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 everyone	case
30	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	28 respected	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bring	past	the kettle	people		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination luck=Theme
2	go	past	everything		with people; well property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary
3	die	past	people			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	do	past	people			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality
5	is	past	people		old property	tree rules
6	respect	participle	people not said here		by everyone	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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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