The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 109

They had two children, a son and a daughter, whom they loved very much, and, like parents in other countries, they often talked of the fine marriages the young people would make some day.

Who acts: table, young people · What happens: have, love, talk, make · To what, where: two children, son

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (table, young people), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 children	nummod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 son	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 son	det
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 children	appos
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 daughter	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 daughter	det
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 son	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 loved	punct
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 loved	obj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 loved	nsubj
14	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 son	acl:relcl
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADV	_	14 loved	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 talked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 talked	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 and	punct
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 parents	case
21	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 talked	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 countries	case
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 countries	amod
24	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 parents	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 parents	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 talked	nsubj
27	often	often	ADV	_	28 talked	advmod
28	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 marriages	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 marriages	det
31	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 marriages	amod
32	marriages	marriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 talked	obl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 people	det
34	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 people	amod
35	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 make	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 make	aux
37	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 talked	parataxis
38	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	39 day	det
39	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 make	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	table	two children			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
2	love	past	table	a son and a daughter			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
3	talk	past	table			like parents in other countries; of the fine marriages; often property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	would	the young people		day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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