The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 68
A beautiful house was built for them; she was the favourite daughter-in-law; everything went well with them, and they lived happily ever after.
Who acts: mother, everything, sons · What happens: build, be, go, live · To what, where: beautiful house, favourite law
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 (mother, everything, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 house | det |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 house | amod |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 built | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 built | aux:pass |
| 5 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 built | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 law | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 law | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 law | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 law | det |
| 12 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 law | amod |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 law | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 law | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 law | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 in | punct |
| 17 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 built | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 19 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 built | parataxis |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 went | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lived | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 lived | cc |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 lived | nsubj |
| 27 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 went | conj |
| 28 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 27 lived | advmod |
| 29 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 30 after | advmod |
| 30 | after | after | ADV | _ | 27 lived | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | a beautiful house | for sons = son | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for they=Asset | ||||
| 2 | is | past | mother | the favourite law | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | past | everything | with sons = son; well property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | live | past | sons = son | after, 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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