Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 35

He had to prove to her that he was not any other woman’s sweetheart, and when he proved that they were married, and they lived happily ever after, which is the proper way to live.

Who acts: Lugaidh, whelps · What happens: have, prove, not be, marry, live, be · To what, where: Tuiren, sweetheart, whelps, proper way

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lugaidh, whelps), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 prove	mark
4	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 prove	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 sweetheart	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sweetheart	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sweetheart	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 sweetheart	advmod
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 woman	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sweetheart	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 woman	case
15	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prove	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 proved	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 proved	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 proved	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 proved	nsubj
20	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 married	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 married	nsubj:pass
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 married	aux:pass
24	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 proved	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lived	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lived	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lived	nsubj
28	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
29	happily	happily	ADV	_	28 lived	advmod
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 after	advmod
31	after	after	ADV	_	29 happily	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 way	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 way	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 way	cop
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 way	det
36	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 way	amod
37	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lived	obl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 live	mark
39	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 way	acl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Lugaidh				tree rules
2	prove	to-infinitive	Lugaidh not said here		Tuiren		vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to she=Experiencer
3	not is a	past	Lugaidh	any other woman's sweetheart			tree rules
4	prove	past	Lugaidh				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	marry	past · passive		whelps = whelp			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	live	past	whelps = whelp			happily property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a	present		the proper way			tree rules
8	live	to-infinitive	whelps = whelp not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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