The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 47
The night was passed in singing and dancing, and then the bride and bridegroom went to their own house, where they lived till they died, and had many children, who were famous throughout Japan for their goodness and beauty.
Who acts: bride, singing, many children · What happens: pass, go, live, die, have, be · To what, where: night, singing, own house, many children
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 (bride, singing, many children), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | aux:pass |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 singing | case |
| 6 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dancing | cc |
| 8 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 singing | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 went | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bride | det |
| 13 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bridegroom | cc |
| 15 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bride | conj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 house | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 house | amod |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lived | punct |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 lived | advmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 lived | nsubj |
| 24 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 house | acl:relcl |
| 25 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 27 died | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 died | nsubj |
| 27 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 lived | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 had | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 had | cc |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | conj |
| 31 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 children | amod |
| 32 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 had | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 famous | punct |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 famous | nsubj |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 famous | cop |
| 36 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 children | amod |
| 37 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 38 Japan | case |
| 38 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 famous | obl |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 goodness | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 goodness | nmod:poss |
| 41 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 famous | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 beauty | cc |
| 43 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 goodness | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · passive | the night | singing and dancing | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in singing=Destination | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the bride and bridegroom | singing's own house | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | live | past | singing | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | die | past | singing | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | have | past | the bride and bridegroom not said here | many children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is | past | many children | throughout Japan | for singing's goodness and beauty; famous 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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