The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 57
The young couple lived for some time in great peace and happiness, when suddenly one day the former shepherd bethought himself of his poor sister and expressed a wish to see her again, and to let her share in his good fortune.
Who acts: young couple, former shepherd, Princess · What happens: live, bethink, express, see, let, share · To what, where: great peace, couple, wish, Princess, good fortune
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young couple, former shepherd, Princess), 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 | 3 couple | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 couple | amod |
| 3 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 peace | case |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 peace | amod |
| 10 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 happiness | cc |
| 12 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 peace | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bethought | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 bethought | advmod |
| 15 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 16 one | advmod |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 day | nummod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bethought | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 shepherd | det |
| 19 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 shepherd | amod |
| 20 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bethought | nsubj |
| 21 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | parataxis |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 bethought | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 sister | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sister | nmod:poss |
| 25 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sister | amod |
| 26 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bethought | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 expressed | cc |
| 28 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 bethought | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 wish | det |
| 30 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 expressed | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 see | mark |
| 32 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 expressed | advcl |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 see | obj |
| 34 | again | again | ADV | _ | 32 see | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 let | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 let | cc |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 let | mark |
| 38 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | parataxis |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 let | obj |
| 40 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 let | xcomp |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 fortune | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 43 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 fortune | amod |
| 44 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 share | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the young couple | great peace and happiness | time | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location | |||
| 2 | bethink | past | the former shepherd | couple | day | of couple's poor sister | tree rules | ||
| 3 | express | past | the former shepherd not said here | a wish | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | the former shepherd not said here | Princess | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | let | to-infinitive | Princess | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | share | infinitive | Princess not said here | couple's good fortune | tree rules |
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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