The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 89

In summer she returned to her husband, and their life of joy and happiness began again, and lasted till the approach of winter, when the Flower Queen’s daughter went back again to her mother.

Who acts: daughter, life, winter · What happens: return, begin, last, go back, approach

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, life, winter), 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	_	2 summer	case
2	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 returned	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 returned	nsubj
4	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 husband	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 husband	nmod:poss
7	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 returned	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod:poss
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 began	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 joy	case
13	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 life	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 happiness	cc
15	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 joy	conj
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 returned	conj
17	again	again	ADV	_	16 began	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lasted	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lasted	cc
20	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 began	advcl
21	till	till	ADP	_	23 approach	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 approach	det
23	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lasted	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 winter	case
25	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 approach	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 went	punct
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 went	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Queen	det
29	Flower	Flower	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Queen	compound
30	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 daughter	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 Queen	case
32	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 went	nsubj
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lasted	conj
34	back	back	ADV	_	33 went	advmod
35	again	again	ADV	_	33 went	advmod
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 mother	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 mother	nmod:poss
38	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 went	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	daughter	summer	to daughter's husband result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to husband=Result
2	begin	past	pomp's life of joy and happiness	again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	last	past	pomp's life of joy and happiness not said here	till the approach of winter		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
4	go back	past	the Flower Queen's daughter	again	to daughter's mother result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to mother=Result
5	approach		winter			nom approach «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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