The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 74
The marriage took place the following day, and Muffette and her husband lived happy for ever after.
Who acts: marriage, Muffette · What happens: take, follow, live · To what, where: place
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marriage, Muffette), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 marriage | det |
| 2 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lived | cc |
| 10 | Muffette | Muffette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 husband | cc |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nmod:poss |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Muffette | conj |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lived | xcomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 ever | case |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 lived | obl |
| 18 | after | after | ADV | _ | 14 lived | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the marriage | place | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | live | past | Muffette and Muffette's husband | after, happy property | 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: «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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