The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 43
So they returned joyfully to their own home, and lived in peace and happiness ever after.
Who acts: scales · What happens: return, live · To what, where: peace
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (scales), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 3 returned | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 home | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 home | amod |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lived | cc |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 peace | case |
| 13 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 happiness | cc |
| 15 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 peace | conj |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 after | advmod |
| 17 | after | after | ADV | _ | 11 lived | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | scales = scale | to scales's own home result; joyfully property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result | ||||
| 2 | live | past | scales = scale not said here | peace and happiness | after property | 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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