The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 79
So the happy couple returned to their castle, and lived there in peace and plenty for ever after.
Who acts: happy couple · What happens: return, live · To what, where: peace
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (happy couple), 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 | _ | 5 returned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 couple | det |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 couple | amod |
| 4 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 castle | nmod:poss |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lived | cc |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 returned | conj |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 lived | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 peace | case |
| 14 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 plenty | cc |
| 16 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 peace | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 after | case |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 after | advmod |
| 19 | after | after | ADV | _ | 11 lived | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the happy couple | to waves's castle result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result | ||||
| 2 | live | past | the happy couple not said here | peace and plenty; 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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