The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 5
But Mr. Simon returned home to his faithful Nina rich in flocks and gold, and lived for many a year in health and happiness.
Who acts: Simon · What happens: return, live
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simon), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 returned | cc |
| 2 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Simon | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 returned | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 rich | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 rich | nmod:poss |
| 8 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Nina | amod |
| 9 | Nina | Nina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 rich | nsubj |
| 10 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 returned | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 flocks | case |
| 12 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rich | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gold | cc |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flocks | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lived | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lived | cc |
| 17 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 year | case |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 year | amod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 year | det |
| 21 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 health | case |
| 23 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 year | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 happiness | cc |
| 25 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 health | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Simon Mr. | to Simon's rich result; home property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to rich=Result | ||||
| 2 | live | past | Simon Mr. not said here | year | 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 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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