The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 15
They were both young and handsome and strong, and when they got married, they thought work would never fail them.
Who acts: burner, work · What happens: be, marry, think, not fail · To what, where: burner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (burner, work), 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 | 4 young | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 young | cop |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 4 young | advmod |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 handsome | cc |
| 6 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 young | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 strong | cc |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 young | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 married | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 married | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 married | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 married | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 married | aux:pass |
| 14 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 young | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 married | conj |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fail | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 fail | aux |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 fail | advmod |
| 21 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fail | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | burner | both, young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | burner not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | burner not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | marry | past · passive | burner | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | burner | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not fail | would | work | burner | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
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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