The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 134
The hut was razed to the ground, and the Prince and his bride and her two sisters lived happily ever after.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: raze, live · To what, where: hut
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 hut | det |
| 2 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 razed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 razed | aux:pass |
| 4 | razed | raze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 razed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lived | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lived | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 lived | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bride | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bride | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Prince | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sisters | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 sisters | nummod |
| 18 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Prince | conj |
| 19 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 razed | conj |
| 20 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 19 lived | advmod |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 after | advmod |
| 22 | after | after | ADV | _ | 19 lived | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 razed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raze | past · passive | the hut | to the ground | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | live | past | the Prince and prince's bride and bride's two sisters | after, happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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