The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 2

For many years they were happy and prosperous, but bad times came, and at last nothing was left them but their daughter, who was as beautiful as the morning.

Who acts: man, daughter · What happens: be, come, leave · To what, where: nothing

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, daughter), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 years	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 happy	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 happy	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happy	cop
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 prosperous	cc
8	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 happy	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 times	amod
12	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 came	obl:unmarked
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happy	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 left	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 left	cc
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 nothing	case
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nothing	amod
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 left	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 left	aux:pass
20	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 came	parataxis
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 left	obj
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 daughter	cc
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 daughter	nmod:poss
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 left	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 beautiful	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 beautiful	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 beautiful	cop
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 beautiful	advmod
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 daughter	acl:relcl
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 morning	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 morning	det
32	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 beautiful	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 happy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	man		year	happy property	tree rules
2	be		man not said here				tree rules
3	come	past	man not said here		time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leave	past · passive		nothing			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme they=Attribute
5	is	past	man's daughter		morning	beautiful 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 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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