The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 53
Then Bernez went home, and showed his wealth to Marzinne, who this time did not refuse him as a brother-in-law, and he and Rozennik were married, and lived happy for ever after.
Who acts: Bernez, Marzinne · What happens: go, show, not refuse, marry, live · To what, where: wealth, Marzinne, Bernez
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bernez, Marzinne), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Bernez | Bernez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 showed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 showed | cc |
| 7 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 showed | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Marzinne | case |
| 11 | Marzinne | Marzinne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 showed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 refuse | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 refuse | nsubj |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 refuse | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 refuse | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 refuse | advmod |
| 18 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Marzinne | parataxis |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 refuse | obj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 law | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 brother | det |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 law | nsubj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 law | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 law | case |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 in | punct |
| 26 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 refuse | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 married | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 married | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 married | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Rozennik | cc |
| 31 | Rozennik | Rozennik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 he | conj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 married | aux:pass |
| 33 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 lived | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 lived | cc |
| 36 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 37 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 lived | xcomp |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 ever | case |
| 39 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 40 after | advmod |
| 40 | after | after | ADV | _ | 36 lived | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Bernez | then | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | show | past | Bernez not said here | Bernez's wealth | Marzinne | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wealth=Topic to marzinne=Recipient | |||
| 3 | not refuse | past · do-support | Marzinne | Bernez | time | as law | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 4 | marry | past · passive | Bernez | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | live | past | Bernez not said here | after, happy 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 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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