The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 87

When he was settled, he married a pretty girl who lived near by, and had some children, to whom on his death-bed he told the story of the lord of the underworld, and how he had made Hans rich.

Who acts: plenty, pretty girl · What happens: settle, marry, live, have, tell, make · To what, where: plenty, pretty girl, children, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plenty, pretty girl), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 settled	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 settled	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 settled	aux:pass
4	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 married	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 settled	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 married	nsubj
7	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 girl	det
9	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 girl	amod
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 married	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lived	nsubj
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 girl	acl:relcl
13	near	near	ADV	_	12 lived	advmod
14	by	by	ADP	_	13 near	fixed
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 married	conj
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 children	det
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 had	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 whom	punct
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 whom	case
22	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 had	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	27 bed	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 bed	nmod:poss
25	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bed	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 death	punct
27	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 whom	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	nsubj
29	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 bed	acl:relcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 story	det
31	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 told	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 lord	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 lord	det
34	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 story	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 underworld	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 underworld	det
37	underworld	underworld	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lord	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 made	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 made	cc
40	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	43 made	advmod
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 made	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 made	aux
43	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 married	conj
44	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	43 made	obl:agent
45	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 made	xcomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	settle	past · passive		plenty		vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location
2	marry	past	plenty	a pretty girl		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient
3	live	past	a pretty girl		near property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	plenty not said here	some children		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
5	tell speech: assert	past	plenty	the story of the lord of the underworld		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
6	make	past · perfect	plenty		rich property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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