The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 30
And there they lived for a hundred years, a hundred years of joy and happiness.
Who acts: spirits · What happens: live
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirits), 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 | _ | 4 lived | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 lived | expl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hundred | det |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 years | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 years | det |
| 11 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 joy | case |
| 14 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 years | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 happiness | cc |
| 16 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 joy | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | spirits = spirit | there | year | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/18/30/