English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 52
So the gentleman turned back home again and married the farmer's daughter, and if they didn't live happy for ever after, that's nothing to do with you or me.
Who acts: gentleman, people, that · What happens: turn back, marry, not live, be, do · To what, where: daughter, nothing
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman, people, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7439:244): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gentleman | det |
| 3 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 married | cc |
| 9 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 farmer | det |
| 11 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 farmer | case |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 married | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 nothing | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 nothing | cc |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 live | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 live | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 live | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 live | advmod |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 nothing | advcl |
| 21 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 live | xcomp |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 ever | case |
| 23 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 live | obl |
| 24 | after | after | ADV | _ | 20 live | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 nothing | punct |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 nothing | nsubj |
| 27 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 nothing | cop |
| 28 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 turned | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 do | mark |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 nothing | acl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 you | case |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 do | obl |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 me | cc |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 you | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn back | past | the gentleman | again | home property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | marry | past | the gentleman not said here | the farmer's daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not live a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | people | after, happy property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | that | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | the gentleman not said here | with you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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