Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 164
The cowboy and the prince's daughter lived on till they were married.
Who acts: cowboy · What happens: live, marry · To what, where: princes
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cowboy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cowboy | det |
| 2 | cowboy | cowboy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 daughter | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 prince | case |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cowboy | conj |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 13 married | mark |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 married | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 married | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 married | aux:pass |
| 13 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lived | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the cowboy and the prince's daughter | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | marry | past · passive | princes = prince | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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