The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 62
They divided the apple of life and ate it together, and her heart grew full of love for him, so they lived together to a great age in undisturbed happiness.
Who acts: objections, heart · What happens: divide, eat, grow, live together · To what, where: apple
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (objections, heart), 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 divided | nsubj |
| 2 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 apple | det |
| 4 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 divided | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 apple | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ate | cc |
| 8 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 divided | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ate | obj |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 ate | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 grew | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heart | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grew | nsubj |
| 15 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 divided | parataxis |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grew | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 love | case |
| 18 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 full | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 full | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lived | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 lived | advmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 lived | nsubj |
| 24 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 grew | conj |
| 25 | together | together | ADV | _ | 24 lived | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 age | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 age | det |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 age | amod |
| 29 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lived | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 happiness | case |
| 31 | undisturbed | undisturbed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 happiness | amod |
| 32 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 age | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | past | objections = objection | the apple of life | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | objections = objection not said here | apple | together property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | grow | past | Princess's heart | full property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | live together | past | objections = objection | to a great age in undisturbed happiness | together property | 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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