The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 82
Then the Six brought the treasure home, shared it among themselves, and lived contentedly till the end of their days.
Who acts: Six · What happens: bring, share, live · To what, where: treasure, message
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Six), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 brought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Six | det |
| 3 | Six | Six | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 treasure | det |
| 6 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obj |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 brought | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shared | punct |
| 9 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shared | obj |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 themselves | case |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 shared | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lived | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lived | cc |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | conj |
| 16 | contentedly | contentedly | ADV | _ | 15 lived | advmod |
| 17 | till | till | ADP | _ | 19 end | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 end | det |
| 19 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lived | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 days | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 days | nmod:poss |
| 22 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 end | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the Six | the treasure | then | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | ||
| 2 | share | past | the Six not said here | message | among Six | tree rules | |||
| 3 | live | past | the Six not said here | till the end of Six's days | contentedly 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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