The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 2

No couple were ever so happy; but before their honeymoon was over they were forced to part, for the King had to go on a warlike expedition to a far country, and leave his young wife alone at home.

Who acts: couple, King · What happens: be, force, have, go, leave · To what, where: honeymoon, warlike expedition, young wife, home

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (couple, King), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 couple	det
2	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 happy	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happy	cop
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 happy	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 happy	advmod
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 leave	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 leave	cc
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 forced	mark
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 honeymoon	nmod:poss
11	honeymoon	honeymoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 forced	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 forced	aux:pass
13	over	over	SCONJ	_	16 forced	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 forced	nsubj:pass
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 forced	aux:pass
16	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 leave	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 part	mark
18	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 forced	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 had	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 King	det
22	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 forced	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 go	mark
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 had	xcomp
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 expedition	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 expedition	det
28	warlike	warlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 expedition	amod
29	expedition	expedition	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 country	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 country	det
32	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 country	amod
33	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 leave	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 leave	cc
36	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 happy	parataxis
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 wife	nmod:poss
38	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 wife	amod
39	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 leave	obj
40	alone	alone	ADV	_	36 leave	advmod
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 home	case
42	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 leave	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 happy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	no couple			ever	happy property	tree rules
2	force	past · passive		their honeymoon				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
3	have	past	the King					tree rules
4	go	to-infinitive	the King not said here		a warlike expedition		to a far country	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location
5	leave	infinitive		King's young wife	home		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wife=Theme at home=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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