The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 4
So he married, and in the following years several children were born to him; but peace and order did not come to the household.
Who acts: man, peace · What happens: marry, follow, bear, not come · To what, where: several children, man, household
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, peace), 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 married | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 married | nsubj |
| 3 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 born | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 born | cc |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 years | det |
| 8 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 years | amod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 born | obl |
| 10 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 children | amod |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 born | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 born | aux:pass |
| 13 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 married | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 born | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 come | cc |
| 18 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 come | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 order | cc |
| 20 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 peace | conj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 come | advmod |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 married | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 household | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 household | det |
| 26 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 come | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | man | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | bear | past · passive | several children | man | year | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | not come | past · do-support | peace and order | the household | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to household=Initial_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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