English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 21
So they were married in secret and lived happily in the castle and no one knew that every night Coo-my-dove became Prince Florentine.
Who acts: one, night Coo · What happens: marry, live, know, become · To what, where: birds, secret, castle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, night Coo), 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 | _ | 4 married | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 married | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | aux:pass |
| 4 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 secret | case |
| 6 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 married | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lived | cc |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | conj |
| 9 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 8 lived | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 castle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 knew | cc |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knew | nsubj |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lived | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 became | mark |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 night | det |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Coo | compound |
| 20 | Coo | coo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 became | nsubj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 dove | punct |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 dove | nmod:poss |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 my | punct |
| 24 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Coo | appos |
| 25 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 knew | ccomp |
| 26 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Florentine | nmod:desc |
| 27 | Florentine | Florentine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 became | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | birds = bird | secret | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | live | past | the castle | happily property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location | ||||
| 3 | know | past | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | become | past | night Coo | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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