The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 26
They lived at home in their father’s palace, and he spared no pains to make their lives happy.
Who acts: prince, king · What happens: live, spare, make · To what, where: home, pains, lives
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, king), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 home | case |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 palace | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 father | case |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spared | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 spared | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 spared | nsubj |
| 13 | spared | spare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lived | conj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 pains | det |
| 15 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 spared | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 spared | advcl |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lives | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 make | obj |
| 20 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 make | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | prince | home | in prince's father's palace | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | |||
| 2 | spare | past | king | no pains | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent pain=Asset | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | king not said here | prince's lives | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset life=Product |
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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