The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 137
So Hans went his way, bought himself a large house, and married a young wife, and lived happily and prosperously to the end of his days.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: go, buy, marry, live · To what, where: way, Hans, young wife
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 way | nmod:poss |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bought | punct |
| 7 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 bought | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 house | amod |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bought | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 married | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 married | cc |
| 14 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wife | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wife | amod |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 married | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lived | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lived | cc |
| 20 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 21 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 20 lived | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 prosperously | cc |
| 23 | prosperously | prosperously | ADV | _ | 21 happily | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 end | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 end | det |
| 26 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lived | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 days | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 days | nmod:poss |
| 29 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 end | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Hans | Hans's way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | buy | past | Hans not said here | Hans | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary house=Theme | ||||
| 3 | marry | past | Hans not said here | a young wife | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||||
| 4 | live | past | Hans not said here | to the end of Hans's days | happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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