The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 110

They continued to prosper, and became rich people, but there was no heir to it all.

Who acts: children · What happens: continue, prosper, become, be · To what, where: rich people

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	2 continued	nsubj
2	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 prosper	mark
4	prosper	prosper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 continued	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 became	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 became	cc
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 continued	conj
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 became	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 was	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 was	cc
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 it	cop
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 heir	det
15	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 was	nsubj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 continued	obl
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 it	det
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	continue	past	children = child			vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	prosper	to-infinitive	children = child not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	become	past	children = child not said here	rich people		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	is	past			to heir	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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