The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 82
And they were married, and he and she are living happy till this day, for aught I ken.
Who acts: jewelry, I · What happens: marry, live, ken · To what, where: dochters
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Bull of Norroway. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jewelry, I), 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 | _ | 4 married | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 married | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | aux:pass |
| 4 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 living | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 living | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 living | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 she | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 he | conj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 living | aux |
| 11 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 married | conj |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 living | xcomp |
| 13 | till | till | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 living | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 aught | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 aught | case |
| 18 | aught | aught | PRON | PronType=Ind | 11 living | parataxis |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 ken | nsubj |
| 20 | ken | ken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 aught | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | dochters = dochter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | live | present · progressive | jewelry | day | happy property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | ken | present | I | tree rules |
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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