The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 16
For some years everything went well with them, and they lived happily in their new home.
Who acts: everything, people · What happens: go, live · To what, where: new home
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything, people), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 years | det |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lived | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lived | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 13 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 12 lived | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 home | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 home | nmod:poss |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 home | amod |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | everything | year | with people; well property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | live | past | people | people's new home | happily property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in home=Location |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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