The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 67
And now the old couple had plenty of money and were cheery and comfortable.
Who acts: old couple · What happens: have, be · To what, where: plenty
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old couple), 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 | _ | 6 had | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 had | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 couple | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 couple | amod |
| 5 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 money | case |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plenty | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cheery | cc |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cheery | cop |
| 12 | cheery | cheery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 had | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 comfortable | cc |
| 14 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cheery | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the old couple | plenty of money | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | the old couple not said here | cheery property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the old couple 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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