The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 156
Then the good woman laughed; and Pivi and his two wives lived happy ever afterwards.
Who acts: good woman, Pivi · What happens: laugh, live
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good woman, Pivi), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 laughed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laughed | nsubj |
| 5 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 lived | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Pivi | cc |
| 8 | Pivi | Pivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wives | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wives | nmod:poss |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 wives | nummod |
| 12 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Pivi | conj |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laughed | conj |
| 14 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lived | xcomp |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 afterwards | advmod |
| 16 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 13 lived | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the good woman | then | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | live | past | Pivi and shell's two wives | afterwards, 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 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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