The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 99

The old mother lived for many years peacefully with her children; and she carried the two rose trees with her, and they stood in front of her window, and every year they bore the finest red and white roses.

Who acts: old mother, mother, two, trees · What happens: live, carry, rise, stand, bear · To what, where: trees, front, finest red roses

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old mother, mother, two, trees), 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	3 mother	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mother	amod
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 years	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 years	amod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	obl
8	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	7 years	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 children	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 children	nmod:poss
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 carried	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 carried	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 carried	nsubj
15	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lived	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 two	det
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 rose	nsubj
18	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 carried	ccomp
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 rose	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rose	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stood	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stood	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 stood	nsubj
25	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 carried	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 front	case
27	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stood	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 window	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 window	nmod:poss
30	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 front	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 bore	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 bore	cc
33	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	34 year	det
34	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bore	obl:unmarked
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 bore	nsubj
36	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 stood	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 roses	det
38	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	42 roses	amod
39	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 roses	amod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 white	cc
41	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 red	conj
42	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 bore	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the old mother			year	with mother's children	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with child=Location
2	carry	past	mother					tree rules
3	rise	past	the two	trees			with mother	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme
4	stand	past	trees = tree		front of mother's window			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
5	bear	past	trees = tree	the finest red roses		year		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=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 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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