--- title: The young couple lived for some time in great peace and happiness, w… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The young couple lived for some time in great peace and happiness, when suddenly one day the former shepherd bethought himself of his poor sister and expressed a wish to see her again, and to let her share in his good fortune. Who acts: young couple, former shepherd, Princess. A sentence of «The Gre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/56/57/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Three Dogs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/56/) / 57 # The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 57 The young couple lived for some time in great peace and happiness, when suddenly one day the former shepherd bethought himself of his poor sister and expressed a wish to see her again, and to let her share in his good fortune. **Who acts:** young couple, former shepherd, Princess · **What happens:** live, bethink, express, see, let, share · **To what, where:** great peace, couple, wish, Princess, good fortune This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young couple, former shepherd, Princess), 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:pg7277:56:57 # text = The young couple lived for some time in great peace and happiness, when suddenly one day the former shepherd bethought himself of his poor sister and expressed a wish to see her again, and to let her share in his good fortune. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 happiness happiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 15 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 shepherd shepherd NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 bethought bethink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 22 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 expressed express VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 wish wish NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 33 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 again again ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 39 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 share share VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 43 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | the young couple | | | great peace and happiness | time | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location | | 2 | **bethink** | past | the former shepherd | couple | | | day | of couple's poor sister | tree rules | | 3 | **express** | past | the former shepherd *not said here* | a wish | | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme | | 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | the former shepherd *not said here* | Princess | | | again | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 5 | **let** | to-infinitive | | Princess | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **share** | infinitive | Princess *not said here* | | | couple's good fortune | | | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/56/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/56/58/) - ↑ back to [The Three Dogs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/56/)