The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 109
And the bridal pair lived happily in the castle on the Banka till they died.
Who acts: bridal pair, drops · What happens: live, die · To what, where: castle
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridal pair, drops), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lived | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pair | det |
| 3 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pair | amod |
| 4 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 5 lived | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 Banka | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Banka | det |
| 12 | Banka | Banka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 castle | nmod |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 died | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 died | nsubj |
| 15 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lived | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the bridal pair | the castle on the Banka | happily property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location | |||
| 2 | die | past | drops = drop | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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