The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 40
He married a wife, and they lived in great peace and happiness, and he was acknowledged to be the richest man, not only of his native village, but of all the country-side.
Who acts: shepherd, gods · What happens: marry, live, acknowledge, be · To what, where: wife, great peace, shepherd, richest man
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, gods), 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 | 2 married | nsubj |
| 2 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wife | det |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 married | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lived | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 married | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 peace | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 peace | amod |
| 11 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 happiness | cc |
| 13 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 peace | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 acknowledged | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 acknowledged | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 acknowledged | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 acknowledged | aux:pass |
| 18 | acknowledged | acknowledge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lived | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 man | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 man | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 acknowledged | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 village | punct |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 village | advmod |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 village | advmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 village | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 village | nmod:poss |
| 29 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 village | amod |
| 30 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 man | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 side | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 side | cc |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 side | case |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 side | det:predet |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 side | det |
| 36 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 side | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 country | punct |
| 38 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 married | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | shepherd | a wife | of all country side | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | |||
| 2 | live | past | gods = god | great peace and happiness | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location | ||||
| 3 | acknowledge | past · passive | shepherd | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | the richest man and shepherd's native village | 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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