Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 57

They cut the Apple of Life in two and ate it together; and then her heart became full of love for him, and they lived in undisturbed happiness to a great age.

Who acts: excuses, heart · What happens: cut, eat, become, live · To what, where: Apple, two, undisturbed happiness

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (excuses, heart), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Apple	det
4	Apple	Apple	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Life	case
6	Life	Life	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Apple	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 two	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cut	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ate	cc
10	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cut	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ate	obj
12	together	together	ADV	_	10 ate	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 became	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 became	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 became	advmod
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 heart	nmod:poss
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 became	nsubj
18	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cut	conj
19	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 became	xcomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 love	case
21	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 full	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 full	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lived	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lived	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lived	nsubj
27	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cut	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 happiness	case
29	undisturbed	undisturbed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 happiness	amod
30	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lived	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 age	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 age	det
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 age	amod
34	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lived	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	excuses = excuse	the Apple of Life	two			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset apple=Product
2	eat	past	excuses = excuse not said here	apple			together property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	become	past	life's heart			then	full property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	live	past	excuses = excuse		undisturbed happiness	to a great age		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in happiness=Location

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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