The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 8

So it was with Peridor and Diamantino; but of the two, the fairies declared that Diamantino was much the worst; indeed, he behaved so badly to his wife Aglantino, that the fairies would not allow him to live any longer; and he died, leaving behind him a little daughter.

Who acts: way, Peridor, Diamantino, fairies · What happens: be, declare, behave, not allow, live, die · To what, where: Diamantino, little daughter

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 (way, Peridor, Diamantino, fairies), 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	_	5 Peridor	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Peridor	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Peridor	cop
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 Peridor	case
5	Peridor	Peridor	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 declared	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Diamantino	cc
7	Diamantino	Diamantino	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Peridor	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 declared	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 declared	cc
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 two	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 two	det
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 declared	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 two	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fairies	det
15	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 declared	nsubj
16	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 worst	mark
18	Diamantino	Diamantino	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 worst	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 worst	cop
20	much	much	ADV	_	22 worst	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 worst	det
22	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 declared	advcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 behaved	punct
24	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	27 behaved	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 behaved	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 behaved	nsubj
27	behaved	behave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 declared	parataxis
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 badly	advmod
29	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 behaved	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 wife	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 wife	nmod:poss
32	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 behaved	obl
33	Aglantino	Aglantino	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 wife	appos
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 allow	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 allow	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 fairies	det
37	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 allow	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 allow	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 allow	advmod
40	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 behaved	parataxis
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 allow	iobj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 live	mark
43	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 allow	xcomp
44	any	any	ADV	_	45 longer	advmod
45	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	43 live	advmod
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 died	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 died	cc
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 died	nsubj
49	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 declared	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 leaving	punct
51	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 died	advcl
52	behind	behind	ADP	_	53 him	case
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 leaving	obl
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 daughter	det
55	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 daughter	amod
56	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 leaving	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	way			with Peridor and Diamantino	tree rules
2	declare speech: other	past	Peridor and Diamantino			of the two	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Diamantino			bad property	tree rules
4	behave	past	Diamantino			to Diamantino's wife; badly, indeed property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
5	not allow	would	the fairies		Diamantino		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
6	live not said to happen	to-infinitive	the fairies not said here			long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	die	past	Diamantino				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	leave	gerund	Diamantino not said here	a little daughter		behind Diamantino	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme behind he=Location

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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