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The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 42

Her father had long before betrothed her to the son of the neighbouring rajah of Dilaram, but as yet she had not been married to him, and lived the quiet life proper to a maiden of her beauty and position.

Who acts: father · What happens: betroth, neighbour, not marry, live · To what, where: fame, son, rajah, quiet life

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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

nmod:possnsubjauxadvmodadvmodobjcasedetoblcasedetamodnmodcasenmodpunctcccaseoblnsubj:passauxadvmodaux:passconjcaseoblpunctccconjdetamodobjadvmodcasedetoblcasenmod:possnmodccconjpunctrootHerPRONfatherNOUNhadAUXlongADVbeforeADVbetrothedVERBherPRONtoADPtheDETsonNOUNofADPtheDETneighbouringVERBrajahNOUNofADPDilaramPROPN,PUNCTbutCCONJasADPyetADVshePRONhadAUXnotPARTbeenAUXmarriedVERBtoADPhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJlivedVERBtheDETquietADJlifeNOUNproperADVtoADPaDETmaidenNOUNofADPherPRONbeautyNOUNandCCONJpositionNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HerherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 fathernmod:poss
2fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing6 betrothednsubj
3hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 betrothedaux
4longlongADVDegree=Pos5 beforeadvmod
5beforebeforeADV_6 betrothedadvmod
6betrothedbetrothVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 betrothedobj
8totoADP_10 soncase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 sondet
10sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing6 betrothedobl
11ofofADP_14 rajahcase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 rajahdet
13neighbouringneighbourVERBVerbForm=Ger14 rajahamod
14rajahrajahNOUNNumber=Sing10 sonnmod
15ofofADP_16 Dilaramcase
16DilaramDilaramPROPNNumber=Sing14 rajahnmod
17,,PUNCT_25 marriedpunct
18butbutCCONJ_25 marriedcc
19asasADP_20 yetcase
20yetyetADV_25 marriedobl
21sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 marriednsubj:pass
22hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 marriedaux
23notnotPARTPolarity=Neg25 marriedadvmod
24beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part25 marriedaux:pass
25marriedmarryVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 betrothedconj
26totoADP_27 himcase
27himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 marriedobl
28,,PUNCT_30 livedpunct
29andandCCONJ_30 livedcc
30livedliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 betrothedconj
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 lifedet
32quietquietADJDegree=Pos33 lifeamod
33lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing30 livedobj
34properproperlyADV_30 livedadvmod
35totoADP_37 maidencase
36aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art37 maidendet
37maidenmaidenNOUNNumber=Sing30 livedobl
38ofofADP_40 beautycase
39herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs40 beautynmod:poss
40beautybeautyNOUNNumber=Sing37 maidennmod
41andandCCONJ_42 positioncc
42positionpositionNOUNNumber=Sing40 beautyconj
43..PUNCT_6 betrothedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1betrothpastfame's fatherfamethe son of the neighbouring rajah of Dilarambefore propertyvn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to son=Recipient
2neighbourgerundtree rules
3not marrypast · perfect · passivefamerajahvn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to he=Co-Patient
4livepastfame's father not said herethe quiet lifeto a maiden of fame's beauty and position; properly propertyvn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=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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