The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 90
In a short time he married a pretty young wife, and lived with her in great peace and happiness.
Who acts: miller · What happens: marry, live · To what, where: pretty young wife, great peace
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (miller), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 married | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 married | nsubj |
| 6 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wife | det |
| 8 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wife | amod |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wife | amod |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 married | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lived | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lived | cc |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 married | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lived | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 peace | case |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 peace | amod |
| 18 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 happiness | cc |
| 20 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 peace | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | miller | a pretty young wife | time | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | |||
| 2 | live | past | miller not said here | great peace and happiness | with wife | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=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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