The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 100
By and bye they had a son, and very pleased they both were.
Who acts: wings · What happens: have · To what, where: son
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wings), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 bye | case |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 bye | cc |
| 3 | bye | bye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 son | det |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pleased | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pleased | cc |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 pleased | advmod |
| 11 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 had | conj |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 both | nsubj |
| 13 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 pleased | obl |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 both | cop |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | wings = wing | a son | by bye | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
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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