The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 34
The next day the wedding took place, and the two brothers came to the house, and they all lived happily together, but they never forgot the holy man who had been such a good friend.
Who acts: wedding, two brothers, brothers, holy man · What happens: take, come, live, not forget, be · To what, where: place, house, holy man, good friend
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding, two brothers, brothers, holy man), 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 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wedding | det |
| 5 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 brothers | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 brothers | nummod |
| 12 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lived | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lived | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lived | nsubj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 lived | advmod |
| 21 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 22 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 21 lived | advmod |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 21 lived | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 forgot | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 forgot | cc |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 forgot | nsubj |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 forgot | advmod |
| 28 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 man | det |
| 30 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 man | amod |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 forgot | obj |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 friend | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 friend | aux |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 friend | cop |
| 35 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 friend | det:predet |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 friend | det |
| 37 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 friend | amod |
| 38 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 man | acl:relcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the wedding | place | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | the two brothers | the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | live | past | brothers = brother | happily, together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not forget | past | brothers = brother | the holy man | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | past · perfect | the holy man | such good friend | 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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