The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 33

So they lived happily together till they were quite old, and when one was taken ill and died the two others were so deeply grieved that they were also taken ill and died too.

Who acts: Brothers · What happens: live, be, take, die, grieve · To what, where: one, two others, Brothers

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brothers), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 lived	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	happily	happily	ADV	_	3 lived	advmod
5	together	together	ADV	_	3 lived	advmod
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 old	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 old	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 old	cop
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 old	advmod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lived	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 taken	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 taken	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 taken	advmod
14	one	one	PRON	PronType=Ind	16 taken	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 taken	aux:pass
16	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lived	parataxis
17	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 taken	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 died	cc
19	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 taken	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 others	det
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 others	nummod
22	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 grieved	nsubj:pass
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 grieved	aux
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 grieved	advmod
25	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	26 grieved	advmod
26	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 died	ccomp
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 taken	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 taken	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 taken	aux:pass
30	also	also	ADV	_	31 taken	advmod
31	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 grieved	advcl
32	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 taken	xcomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 died	cc
34	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 taken	conj
35	too	too	ADV	_	34 died	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	live	past	Brothers = brother		happily, together property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Brothers = brother		old property	tree rules
3	take	past · passive		one	ill property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	die	past				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	grieve	past · passive		the two others	deeply property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
6	take	past · passive		Brothers = brother	ill property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	die	past				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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