The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 131
And married they were, and they set forth across a meadow to the king’s house.
Who acts: maidens · What happens: marry, be, set · To what, where: meadow
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 married | cc |
| 2 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 were | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 married | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 set | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 set | nsubj |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 married | conj |
| 9 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 8 set | advmod |
| 10 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 meadow | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 meadow | det |
| 12 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 house | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 king | case |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | be | past | maidens = maiden | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | set | past | maidens = maiden | a meadow | to the king's house; forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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