Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 96
And henceforward, although the Fairy had lost her magic powers, the two lived happily together, and grew to a good old age in prosperous and comfortable circumstances.
Who acts: Fairy, two · What happens: lose, live, grow · To what, where: magic powers, prosperous circumstances
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, two), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lost | cc |
| 2 | henceforward | henceforward | ADV | _ | 8 lost | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lost | punct |
| 4 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 8 lost | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fairy | det |
| 6 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lost | aux |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 powers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 powers | amod |
| 11 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lost | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lived | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 two | det |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 lived | nsubj |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lost | advcl |
| 16 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 15 lived | advmod |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 lived | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 grew | cc |
| 20 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lived | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 age | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 age | det |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 age | amod |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 age | amod |
| 25 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grew | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 circumstances | case |
| 27 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 circumstances | amod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 comfortable | cc |
| 29 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 prosperous | conj |
| 30 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 grew | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · perfect | the Fairy | wife's magic powers | henceforward property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | live | past | the two | happily, together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | the two not said here | prosperous circumstances | to a good old age | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circumstance=Location |
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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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