The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 138
So Hans and the princess lived in peace and happiness all their days, and when the old king died they reigned instead of him.
Who acts: Hans, old king, peace · What happens: live, die, reign · To what, where: peace
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, old king, peace), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 lived | advmod |
| 2 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 princess | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hans | conj |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 peace | case |
| 8 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 happiness | cc |
| 10 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 peace | conj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 days | det:predet |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 days | nmod:poss |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 reigned | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 reigned | cc |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 died | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 king | amod |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 died | nsubj |
| 20 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 reigned | advcl |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 reigned | nsubj |
| 22 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 23 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 25 him | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 instead | fixed |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 reigned | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Hans and the princess | peace and happiness | day | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location | |||
| 2 | die | past | the old king | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | reign | past | peace | instead king | 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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