English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 32

They lived in a large house, and Jack's mother lived with them in great happiness until she died.

Who acts: legs, mother · What happens: live, die · To what, where: large house, great happiness

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legs, mother), 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 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 house	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 house	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 house	amod
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lived	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lived	cc
9	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 mother	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Jack	case
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	nsubj
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lived	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 happiness	case
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 happiness	amod
17	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obl
18	until	until	SCONJ	_	20 died	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 died	nsubj
20	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lived	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	legs = leg	a large house		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
2	live	past	Jack's mother	great happiness	with legs = leg	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location
3	die	past	mother			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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