The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 19
They are rich in romantic adventure, and the Princes always marry the right Princesses and live happy ever afterwards; while the wicked witches, stepmothers, tutors and governesses are never cruelly punished, but retire to the country on ample pensions.
Who acts: guardians, Princes · What happens: be, marry, live, not punish, retire · To what, where: romantic adventure, right Princesses, wicked witches, ample pensions
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guardians, Princes), 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 | 3 rich | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rich | cop |
| 3 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 adventure | case |
| 5 | romantic | romantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 adventure | amod |
| 6 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rich | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 marry | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 marry | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princes | det |
| 10 | Princes | Prince | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 marry | nsubj |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 marry | advmod |
| 12 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rich | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Princesses | det |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Princesses | amod |
| 15 | Princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 marry | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 live | cc |
| 17 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 marry | conj |
| 18 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 live | xcomp |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 afterwards | advmod |
| 20 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 17 live | advmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 punished | punct |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 35 punished | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 witches | det |
| 24 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 witches | amod |
| 25 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 punished | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stepmothers | punct |
| 27 | stepmothers | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 witches | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 tutors | punct |
| 29 | tutors | tutor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 witches | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 governesses | cc |
| 31 | governesses | governess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 witches | conj |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 punished | aux:pass |
| 33 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 35 punished | advmod |
| 34 | cruelly | cruelly | ADV | _ | 35 punished | advmod |
| 35 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 marry | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 retire | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 retire | cc |
| 38 | retire | retire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 punished | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 country | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 country | det |
| 41 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 retire | obl |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 pensions | case |
| 43 | ample | ample | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 pensions | amod |
| 44 | pensions | pension | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 retire | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rich | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | guardians = guardian | romantic adventure | rich property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | marry | infinitive | the Princes | the right Princesses | always property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | |||
| 3 | live | present | the Princes not said here | afterwards, happy property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not punish | present · passive | the wicked witches and stepmothers and tutors and governesses | cruelly property | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | retire | infinitive | ample pensions | to the country | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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