The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 54
The tailor drove on unmolested to church, where he and the Princess were married, and he lived with her many years as happy and merry as a lark.
Who acts: tailor, bear · What happens: drive, marry, live · To what, where: unmolested, bear
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, bear), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tailor | det |
| 2 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drove | nsubj |
| 3 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 unmolested | case |
| 5 | unmolested | unmolested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 drove | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 church | case |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drove | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 married | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 married | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 married | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Princess | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 he | conj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 married | aux:pass |
| 15 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 church | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lived | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lived | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lived | nsubj |
| 19 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drove | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lived | obl |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 years | amod |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 happy | case |
| 25 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lived | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 merry | cc |
| 27 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 happy | conj |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 lark | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 lark | det |
| 30 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 merry | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | the tailor | unmolested | to church | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to church=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | marry | past · passive | bear | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | live | past | bear | year | with Princess; as happy | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=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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