--- title: They lived together in peace and harmony, although they were very di… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: They lived together in peace and harmony, although they were very different in character, the man being good-natured and honest, and the wife being greedy and quarrelsome when anyone came her way that she could possibly quarrel with. Who acts: hailstones, wife, anyone, way. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hailstones, wife, anyone, way), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg5615:36:46 # text = They lived together in peace and harmony, although they were very different in character, the man being good-natured and honest, and the wife being greedy and quarrelsome when anyone came her way that she could possibly quarrel with. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 together together ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 harmony harmony NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 although although SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 very very ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 cop _ _ 20 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 natured natured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 cop _ _ 30 greedy greedy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 quarrelsome quarrelsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 33 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 35 advmod _ _ 34 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 35 nsubj _ _ 35 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 40 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 possibly possibly ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 quarrel quarrel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 acl _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live together** | past | hailstones *= hailstone* | | | peace and harmony | | together *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location | | 2 | **is** | past | hailstones *= hailstone* | | | character and the man | | different *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | gerund | hailstones *= hailstone* *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | hailstones *= hailstone* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | hailstones *= hailstone* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | gerund | the wife | | | | | greedy *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | the wife *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **come** | past | anyone | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **quarrel** | could | way | wife's way *not said here* | | | | possibly *property* | tree rules | 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:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/36/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/36/47/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/36/)