The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 86

Then they went back to the maiden’s home, and grew to be very old, and lived happy all the days of their life.

Who acts: tailors · What happens: go back, grow, be, live

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailors), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 home	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 maiden	det
7	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 home	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 maiden	case
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grew	cc
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	16 old	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 old	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 old	advmod
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grew	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lived	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lived	cc
19	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 grew	conj
20	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lived	xcomp
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 days	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 days	det
23	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lived	obl:unmarked
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 life	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 life	nmod:poss
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 days	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	tailors = tailor	then	to the maiden's home result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result
2	grow	past	tailors = tailor not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive	tailors = tailor not said here		old property	tree rules
4	live	past	tailors = tailor not said here	day	happy property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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