The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 11
As for the good old couple, they were given riches and honour, and were loved and cherished to the end of their lives.
What happens: give, love, cherish · To what, where: courtiers
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 6 couple | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 couple | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 couple | amod |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 couple | amod |
| 6 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 given | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 couple | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 given | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 given | aux:pass |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 given | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 honour | cc |
| 13 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 riches | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 loved | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 loved | cc |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 loved | aux:pass |
| 17 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 given | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cherished | cc |
| 19 | cherished | cherish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 loved | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 end | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 end | det |
| 22 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cherished | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 lives | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 lives | nmod:poss |
| 25 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 end | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | courtiers = courtier | as the good old couple | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient rich=Theme | ||||
| 2 | love | past · passive | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF» | ||||||
| 3 | cherish | participle | to the end of courtiers's lives | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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