The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 109
From this time the man and his wife lived so happily together that it was a pleasure to see them, and so the story has an end.
Who acts: man, story · What happens: live, be, see, have · To what, where: pleasure, words, end
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wife | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | conj |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 together | advmod |
| 11 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 12 together | advmod |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 lived | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 pleasure | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pleasure | expl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 pleasure | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pleasure | det |
| 17 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 lived | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 see | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 has | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 has | cc |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 has | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 story | det |
| 25 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 has | nsubj |
| 26 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lived | conj |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 end | det |
| 28 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 has | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the man and man's wife | time | together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the man and man's wife not said here | a pleasure | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the man and man's wife not said here | words = word | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | have | present | the story | a end | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient |
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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