The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 2
And the wedding was celebrated, and they lived happy together till death.
Who acts: they · What happens: celebrate, live · To what, where: wedding
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they), 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 | _ | 5 celebrated | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wedding | det |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 5 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lived | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lived | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 celebrated | conj |
| 10 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lived | xcomp |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 lived | advmod |
| 12 | till | till | ADP | _ | 13 death | case |
| 13 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 celebrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | past · passive | the wedding | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | live | past | they | till death | happy, together 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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