The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 90
This coming and going continued all her life long, and in spite of it they always lived happily together.
Who acts: This, pomp · What happens: come, go, continue, live, spite · To what, where: life, spite
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 (This, pomp), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 coming | nsubj |
| 2 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 continued | advcl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 going | cc |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 coming | conj |
| 5 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 life | det:predet |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 life | nmod:poss |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continued | obj |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 continued | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lived | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lived | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 spite | case |
| 13 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lived | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 spite | nmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lived | nsubj |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 lived | advmod |
| 18 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 continued | conj |
| 19 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 18 lived | advmod |
| 20 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 lived | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | This | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | gerund | This not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | continue | past | daughter's life | long property | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 4 | live | past | pomp | spite of life | always, happily, together property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spite=Location | |||
| 5 | spite | life | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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