The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 47
Now the king could do nothing more but give her to the young man to wife, and they lived together in great joy and happiness.
Who acts: king, men · What happens: do, give, live together · To what, where: nothing, princess, great joy
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, men), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 do | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 nothing | amod |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 give | cc |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 wife | mark |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 man | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lived | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lived | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lived | nsubj |
| 20 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | advcl |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 20 lived | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 joy | case |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 joy | amod |
| 24 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lived | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 happiness | cc |
| 26 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 joy | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | the king | nothing | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | give | infinitive | the king not said here | princess | to the young man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to man=Recipient | |||
| 3 | live together | past | men = man | great joy and happiness | together property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in joy=Location |
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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