The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 87
But the King and the Queen with their six brothers lived many years in happiness and peace.
Who acts: King · What happens: live · To what, where: happiness
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 lived | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Queen | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Queen | det |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 brothers | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 brothers | nummod |
| 10 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 King | nmod |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 years | amod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 happiness | case |
| 15 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 peace | cc |
| 17 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 happiness | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the King with children's six brothers and the Queen | happiness and peace | year | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in happiness=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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