The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 44
But the prince and his wife lived together long and happily, and ruled their people well.
Who acts: prince · What happens: live together, rule · To what, where: people
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 lived | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wife | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prince | conj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 lived | advmod |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 lived | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 happily | cc |
| 11 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 9 long | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ruled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ruled | cc |
| 14 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lived | conj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 people | nmod:poss |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ruled | obj |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 ruled | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live together | past | the prince and prince's wife | long, together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rule | past | the prince and prince's wife not said here | lives's people | well property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent people=Result |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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