The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 17

Now, they lived for a long time very happily with one another, but then it came to pass that the young Queen fell seriously ill, and no doctor could save her.

Who acts: others, wedding, young Queen, doctor · What happens: live, come, pass, fall, save · To what, where: Queen

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, wedding, young Queen, doctor), 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	4 lived	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 time	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 happily	advmod
10	happily	happily	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 lived	obl
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 one	fixed
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 came	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lived	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 pass	mark
20	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 came	xcomp
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 fell	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Queen	det
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Queen	amod
24	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 fell	nsubj
25	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 pass	advcl
26	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	27 ill	advmod
27	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fell	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 save	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 save	cc
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 doctor	det
31	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 save	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 save	aux
33	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 came	advcl
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 save	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	others = other		now; time	with one	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with one=Location
2	come	past	wedding		then		tree rules
3	pass	to-infinitive	wedding not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall	past	the young Queen			ill property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	save	could	no doctor	Queen			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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