The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 18
The girl was willing and the father was willing, and very soon they were married and went to live at the farm.
Who acts: girl, father · What happens: be, marry, go, live · To what, where: maidens, farm
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 (girl, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 willing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 willing | cop |
| 4 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 willing | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 father | det |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 willing | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 willing | cop |
| 9 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 willing | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 married | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 married | cc |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 soon | advmod |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 married | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 married | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 married | aux:pass |
| 16 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 willing | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 married | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 live | mark |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 went | xcomp |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 farm | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 farm | det |
| 23 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 live | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 willing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the girl | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the father | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry | past · passive | maidens = maiden | soon property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go | past | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | live | to-infinitive | the farm | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at farm=Location |
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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