The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 69
And the King and Queen were overjoyed when they saw their children, and they all lived happily together in the beautiful palace.
Who acts: children · What happens: overjoy, see, live · To what, where: King, children, beautiful palace
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 (children), 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 | _ | 7 overjoyed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 overjoyed | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Queen | cc |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 7 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 saw | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 overjoyed | ccomp |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 children | nmod:poss |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 saw | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lived | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lived | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 lived | advmod |
| 17 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 overjoyed | conj |
| 18 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 19 together | advmod |
| 19 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 lived | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 palace | det |
| 22 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 palace | amod |
| 23 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 overjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overjoy | past · passive | the King and Queen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | past | children = child | children's children | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | live | past | children = child | the beautiful palace | together property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=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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