The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 26
So they lived for ten years in this little house, and the time slipped merrily away.
Who acts: hands, time · What happens: live, slip · To what, where: little house
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands, time), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 lived | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 5 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lived | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 house | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 house | amod |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 slipped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 slipped | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slipped | nsubj |
| 15 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lived | conj |
| 16 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 17 away | advmod |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 slipped | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | hands = hand | this little house | year | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | |||
| 2 | slip | past | the time | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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