The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 67
Sylvain and Jocosa gave their faithful promise, and as they kept it they always enjoyed peace and prosperity.
Who acts: Sylvain · What happens: give, keep, enjoy, promise · To what, where: faithful promise, promise, peace
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sylvain), 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 | Sylvain | Sylvain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Jocosa | cc |
| 3 | Jocosa | Jocosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sylvain | conj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 promise | nmod:poss |
| 6 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 promise | amod |
| 7 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 enjoyed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 enjoyed | cc |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 kept | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kept | nsubj |
| 12 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 enjoyed | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kept | obj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 enjoyed | nsubj |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 enjoyed | advmod |
| 16 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 17 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 enjoyed | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 prosperity | cc |
| 19 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 peace | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Sylvain and Jocosa | Sylvain's faithful promise | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | Sylvain | promise | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enjoy | past | Sylvain | peace and prosperity | always property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer peace=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | promise | Sylvain | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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