The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 40
They were all very happy together for many years, and then the father became very ill, and felt he was going to die.
Who acts: sons, father · What happens: be, become, feel, go, die
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, father), 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 | 5 happy | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happy | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 happy | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 happy | advmod |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 happy | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 years | amod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 happy | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 became | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 became | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 became | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 father | det |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 became | nsubj |
| 15 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happy | parataxis |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 ill | advmod |
| 17 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 became | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 felt | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 felt | cc |
| 20 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 became | conj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 going | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 going | aux |
| 23 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 felt | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 die | mark |
| 25 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 going | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sons = son | year | all, happy, together property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | become | past | the father | then | ill property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | feel | past | the father not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | father | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | die | to-infinitive | father not said here | 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 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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