The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 96
From that moment the happiness of both their lives was ruined.
What happens: ruin · To what, where: happiness
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ruined | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 happiness | det |
| 5 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ruined | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lives | case |
| 7 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 lives | det:predet |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 lives | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 happiness | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ruined | aux:pass |
| 11 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ruined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ruin | past · passive | the happiness of Mermaid's lives | moment | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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