The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 105
This was readily granted, and the two lived in peace and happiness to the end of their lives.
Who acts: two · What happens: grant, live · To what, where: This, peace
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (two), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 granted | aux:pass |
| 3 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 4 granted | advmod |
| 4 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lived | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lived | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 two | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 granted | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 peace | case |
| 11 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 happiness | cc |
| 13 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 peace | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 lives | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lives | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 end | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past · passive | This | readily property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past | the two | peace and happiness | to the end of peace's lives | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=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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