English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 58

So the sick son married the well sister, and the well son married the sick sister, and they all lived happy and died happy, and never drank out of a dry cappy.

Who acts: sick son, well son, sons · What happens: marry, live, die, not drink out · To what, where: sister, sick sister, dry cappy

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sick son, well son, sons), 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 married	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 son	amod
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 married	nsubj
5	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sister	det
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 sister	advmod
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 married	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 married	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 married	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 son	det
12	well	well	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 son	amod
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 married	nsubj
14	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 married	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sister	det
16	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sister	amod
17	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 married	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lived	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lived	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lived	nsubj
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 lived	advmod
22	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 married	conj
23	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lived	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 died	cc
25	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lived	conj
26	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 died	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 drank	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 drank	cc
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 drank	advmod
30	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 married	conj
31	out	out	ADP	_	35 cappy	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 cappy	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 cappy	det
34	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 cappy	amod
35	cappy	cappy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 drank	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	marry	past	the sick son	the sister		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient
2	marry	past	the well son	the sick sister		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient
3	live	past	sons = son		happy property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	die	past	sons = son not said here		happy property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	not drink out	past	the sick son not said here	a dry cappy		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cappy=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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