The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 98
There they were married, and they remained in the castle, which was much larger than that of the Princess’s father’s.
Who acts: toads, castle · What happens: marry, remain, be · To what, where: toads, castle
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (toads, castle), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 married | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 married | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | aux:pass |
| 4 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 remained | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 remained | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 remained | nsubj |
| 8 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 castle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remained | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 larger | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 larger | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 larger | cop |
| 15 | much | much | ADV | _ | 16 larger | advmod |
| 16 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 castle | amod |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 that | case |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 larger | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 father | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Princess | det |
| 21 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Princess | case |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 that | nmod |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 father | case |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | toads = toad | there | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | remain | past | toads = toad | the castle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the castle | than that; large 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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