The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 45
So the Hazel-nut child and his parents lived in happiness and prosperity after this till they died.
Who acts: nut child, children · What happens: live, die · To what, where: happiness, till
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hazel-nut Child (29). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nut child, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 lived | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 3 | Hazel | hazel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nut | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hazel | punct |
| 5 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 child | compound |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 parents | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 parents | nmod:poss |
| 9 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 child | conj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 happiness | case |
| 12 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 prosperity | cc |
| 14 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 happiness | conj |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 till | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 till | det |
| 17 | till | till | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 died | nsubj |
| 19 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 till | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the nut child and man's parents | happiness and prosperity | after this till | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in happiness=Location | |||
| 2 | die | past | children = child | this till not said here | tree rules |
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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