The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 72
And he was rich and happy to the end of his days, for he loved his wife, and his purse always gave him money.
Who acts: Don, purse · What happens: be, love, give · To what, where: wife, money, Don
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Don, purse), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 rich | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rich | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rich | cop |
| 4 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 happy | cc |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rich | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happy | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 days | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 days | nmod:poss |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 end | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 loved | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 loved | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 loved | nsubj |
| 16 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rich | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 loved | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gave | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gave | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 purse | nmod:poss |
| 22 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | nsubj |
| 23 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 24 gave | advmod |
| 24 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 loved | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gave | iobj |
| 26 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rich | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Don | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Don not said here | to the end of Don's days | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | love | past | Don | Don's wife | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | give | past | Don's purse | money | Don | always property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient money=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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