The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 70
They lived happily ever afterwards, and their vast kingdoms were presently divided between their children.
Who acts: Islands · What happens: live, divide · To what, where: vast kingdoms
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Islands), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 2 lived | advmod |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 afterwards | advmod |
| 5 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 2 lived | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 divided | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 divided | cc |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 kingdoms | nmod:poss |
| 9 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kingdoms | amod |
| 10 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 divided | aux:pass |
| 12 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 13 divided | advmod |
| 13 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lived | parataxis |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 children | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 children | nmod:poss |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 divided | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Islands = island | afterwards, happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | divide | past · passive | Islands's vast kingdoms | between Islands's children; presently property | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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