The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 46
They lived together in peace and harmony, although they were very different in character, the man being good-natured and honest, and the wife being greedy and quarrelsome when anyone came her way that she could possibly quarrel with.
Who acts: hailstones, wife, anyone, way · What happens: live together, be, come, quarrel · To what, where: peace, character, way
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hailstones, wife, anyone, way), 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 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 lived | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 peace | case |
| 5 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 harmony | cc |
| 7 | harmony | harmony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 peace | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 different | punct |
| 9 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 13 different | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 different | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 different | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 different | advmod |
| 13 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lived | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 character | case |
| 15 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 different | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 man | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 character | conj |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 good | cop |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 different | conj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 good | punct |
| 22 | natured | natured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 good | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 honest | cc |
| 24 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 good | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 greedy | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 greedy | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wife | det |
| 28 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 greedy | nsubj |
| 29 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 greedy | cop |
| 30 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lived | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 quarrelsome | cc |
| 32 | quarrelsome | quarrelsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 greedy | conj |
| 33 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 came | advmod |
| 34 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 35 came | nsubj |
| 35 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 greedy | advcl |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 way | nmod:poss |
| 37 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 came | nsubj |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 quarrel | mark |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 quarrel | nsubj |
| 40 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 quarrel | aux |
| 41 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 42 quarrel | advmod |
| 42 | quarrel | quarrel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 way | acl |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 quarrel | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live together | past | hailstones = hailstone | peace and harmony | together property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | hailstones = hailstone | character and the man | different property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | gerund | hailstones = hailstone not said here | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | hailstones = hailstone not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | be | hailstones = hailstone not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | is | gerund | the wife | greedy property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | the wife not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | come | past | anyone | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | quarrel | could | way | wife's way not said here | possibly property | 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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