The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 2
Though they were peasants they were well off, for the soil on which they lived was fruitful, and yielded rich crops.
Who acts: sons · What happens: be, live, yield · To what, where: soil, rich crops
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 8 off | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 off | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 off | cop |
| 4 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 off | nsubj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 off | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 off | cop |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 off | advmod |
| 8 | off | off | ADV | _ | 18 fruitful | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 off | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 soil | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 soil | det |
| 12 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fruitful | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lived | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 soil | acl:relcl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fruitful | cop |
| 18 | fruitful | fruitful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 yielded | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 yielded | cc |
| 21 | yielded | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fruitful | conj |
| 22 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 crops | amod |
| 23 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 yielded | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 fruitful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sons = son | off, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | sons = son | the soil | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | for the soil; fruitful property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | yield | past | rich crops | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent crop=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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