The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 88
The two couples often met, and lived happily for many, many years.
Who acts: two couples · What happens: meet, live
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 (two couples), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 couples | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 couples | nummod |
| 3 | couples | couple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 met | nsubj |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 met | advmod |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lived | cc |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 met | conj |
| 9 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 8 lived | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 years | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 years | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 many | punct |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 years | amod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lived | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the two couples | often property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | live | past | the two couples not said here | year | happily 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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