--- title: A beautiful house was built for them; she was the favourite daughter… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: A beautiful house was built for them; she was the favourite daughter-in-law; everything went well with them, and they lived happily ever after. Who acts: mother, everything, sons. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/36/68/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Frog](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/36/) / 68 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 68 A beautiful house was built for them; she was the favourite daughter-in-law; everything went well with them, and they lived happily ever after. **Who acts:** mother, everything, sons · **What happens:** build, be, go, live · **To what, where:** beautiful house, favourite law This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, everything, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:36:68 # text = A beautiful house was built for them; she was the favourite daughter-in-law; everything went well with them, and they lived happily ever after. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 12 favourite favourite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 13 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 20 nsubj _ _ 20 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 21 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 28 happily happily ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 30 advmod _ _ 30 after after ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | past · passive | | a beautiful house | | | | for sons *= son* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for they=Asset | | 2 | **is** | past | mother | | | the favourite law | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | past | everything | | | | | with sons *= son*; well *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary | | 4 | **live** | past | sons *= son* | | | | | after, happily *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/36/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/36/69/) - ↑ back to [The Frog](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/36/)