The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 9
So Helena was now mistress of the beautiful castle, and lived there in peace and happiness.
Who acts: Helena · What happens: be, live · To what, where: mistress, peace
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (Helena), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 Helena | advmod |
| 2 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mistress | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mistress | cop |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 mistress | advmod |
| 5 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 castle | amod |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mistress | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lived | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lived | cc |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mistress | parataxis |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 lived | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 peace | case |
| 15 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 happiness | cc |
| 17 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 peace | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mistress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Helena | mistress | now | of the beautiful castle | tree rules | ||
| 2 | live | past | peace and happiness; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=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 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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