The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 128

But the boy and his wife and his mother went back to the kingdom that was theirs, and lived long and happily after all their troubles.

Who acts: boy, that, cowardice · What happens: go back, be, live, trouble · To what, where: cowardice

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, that, cowardice), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wife	cc
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boy	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mother	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boy	conj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 kingdom	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kingdom	det
14	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 theirs	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 theirs	cop
17	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 kingdom	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lived	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lived	cc
20	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	conj
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lived	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 happily	cc
23	happily	happily	ADV	_	21 long	conj
24	after	after	ADP	_	27 troubles	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 troubles	det:predet
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 troubles	nmod:poss
27	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lived	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	the boy and boy's wife and boy's mother			to the kingdom result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kingdom=Result
2	is a	past	that	cowardice			tree rules
3	live	past	the boy and boy's wife and boy's mother not said here		after cowardice's troubles	long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	trouble		cowardice				nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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