The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 49

And there they lived for many years, and when the old king died the princess's husband reigned in his stead.

Who acts: ladies, old king, husband · What happens: live, die, reign · To what, where: stead

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies, old king, husband), 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 lived	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 lived	expl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 years	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 years	amod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 died	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 died	cc
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 died	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 king	amod
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 died	nsubj
14	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lived	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 princess	det
16	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 husband	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 princess	case
18	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 reigned	nsubj
19	reigned	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 died	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 stead	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 stead	nmod:poss
22	stead	stead	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 reigned	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	live	past	ladies = lady	there	year	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die	past	the old king			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	reign	past	the princess's husband	husband's stead		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 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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