The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 55
The people of the kingdom were delighted, and everybody lived happy and contented to the end of their lives.
Who acts: people, everybody · What happens: be, live, content
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, everybody), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 kingdom | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kingdom | det |
| 5 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 people | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 delighted | cop |
| 7 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lived | cc |
| 10 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 delighted | parataxis |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lived | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 contented | cc |
| 14 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 lived | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 end | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 end | det |
| 17 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 contented | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 lives | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 lives | nmod:poss |
| 20 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 end | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the people of the kingdom | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | everybody | happy property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | content | participle | everybody not said here | to the end of people's lives | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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