The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 143

The three princes lived happy and well during their father’s reign, and always keeping the Black Thief along with them; but how they did after the old King’s death is not known.

Who acts: three princes, Princes, old King · What happens: live, keep, do, not know, die · To what, where: Black Thief

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three princes, Princes, old King), 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 princes	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 princes	nummod
3	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lived	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 reign	cc
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 reign	advmod
8	during	during	ADP	_	12 reign	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reign	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 father	case
12	reign	reign	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happy	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 keeping	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 keeping	cc
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 keeping	advmod
16	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lived	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Thief	det
18	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Thief	compound
19	Thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 keeping	obj
20	along	along	ADP	_	22 them	case
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 keeping	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 known	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 known	cc
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 did	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 did	nsubj
27	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 known	advcl
28	after	after	ADP	_	33 death	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 King	det
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 King	amod
31	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 death	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 King	case
33	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 did	obl
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 known	aux:pass
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 known	advmod
36	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lived	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the three princes			happy property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	gerund	the three princes not said here	the Black Thief		along Princes = prince; always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thief=Theme along they=Location
3	do	past	Princes = prince		after the old King's death		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not know	present · passive	the three princes not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»
5	die		the old King				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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