The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 66
So it all fell out as the princess wished; and Gon and Koma had many children, and so had the princess, and they all played together, and were friends to the end of their lives.
Who acts: purring, princess, Gon · What happens: fall out, wish, have, play, be · To what, where: many children, princess, children, friends
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (purring, princess, Gon), 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 | _ | 4 fell | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 fell | advmod |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 fell | compound:prt |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 wished | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wished | nsubj |
| 9 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | advcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 12 | Gon | Gon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Koma | cc |
| 14 | Koma | Koma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Gon | conj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 children | amod |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 had | cc |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 had | advmod |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 princess | det |
| 23 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 played | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 played | cc |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 played | nsubj |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 played | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fell | parataxis |
| 29 | together | together | ADV | _ | 28 played | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 friends | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 friends | cc |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 friends | cop |
| 33 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fell | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 end | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 end | det |
| 36 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 friends | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 lives | case |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 lives | nmod:poss |
| 39 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 end | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall out | past | purring | all property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | the princess | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Gon and Koma | many children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | past | purring not said here | the princess | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | ||||
| 5 | play | participle · passive | children = child | together property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | purring not said here | friends | to the end of children's lives | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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