The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 2
They were both good children, and loved each other with all their hearts.
Who acts: son, good children · What happens: be, love · To what, where: good children, each
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, good children), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 children | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 children | cop |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 5 children | advmod |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 children | amod |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 loved | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 loved | cc |
| 8 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 children | acl:relcl |
| 9 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 8 loved | obj |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 each | fixed |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 hearts | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 hearts | det:predet |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 loved | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 children | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | son | good children | both property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | love | past | good children not said here | each | with son's hearts | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
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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