The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 105
And then they lived happily, and we who hear the story are happier still.
Who acts: parents, we, story · What happens: live, hear, be · To what, where: story
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, we, story), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 lived | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 lived | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 4 lived | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hear | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hear | cc |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 hear | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 hear | nsubj |
| 10 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 story | det |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hear | obj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 happier | cop |
| 14 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 hear | xcomp |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 happier | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | parents = parent | then | happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | hear | present | we | the story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the story not said here | still | happy property | 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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