The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 62

And they governed their kingdoms as they would, and in a few years they became grown men with beards on their chins; and Iarlaid married the daughter of the king of Greece, and Oireal the daughter of the king of Orkney.

Who acts: youths, Iarlaid · What happens: govern, become, grow, marry · To what, where: kingdoms, grown men, daughter

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 (youths, Iarlaid), 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	_	3 governed	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 governed	nsubj
3	governed	govern	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 kingdoms	nmod:poss
5	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 governed	obj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 would	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 would	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 governed	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 became	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 became	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 years	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 years	det
13	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 years	amod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 became	obl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 became	nsubj
16	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 governed	conj
17	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 men	amod
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 became	xcomp
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 beards	case
20	beards	beard	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 men	nmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 chins	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 chins	nmod:poss
23	chins	chin	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 beards	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 married	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 married	cc
26	Iarlaid	Iarlaid	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 married	nsubj
27	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 governed	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 daughter	det
29	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 married	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 king	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 king	det
32	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 daughter	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Greece	case
34	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 king	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 daughter	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 daughter	cc
37	Oireal	Oireal	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 daughter	compound
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 daughter	det
39	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 married	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 king	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 king	det
42	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 daughter	nmod
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 Orkney	case
44	Orkney	Orkney	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 king	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 governed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	govern	past	youths = youth	youths's kingdoms			vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme
2	become	past	youths = youth	grown men with beards on youths's chins	year		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	marry	past	Iarlaid	the daughter of the king of Greece		the Oireal daughter of the king of Orkney obl	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

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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