The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 89
Then they all lived happily to their lives’ ends, and all things went well with them.
Who acts: lilies, things · What happens: live, go
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lilies, things), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 lived | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 lived | advmod |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 4 lived | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 ends | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lives | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ends | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 8 lives | case |
| 10 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 things | det |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | conj |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | lilies = lily | to lilies's lives's ends; then | happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | all things | with lilies = lily; well property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |
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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