More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 35

So their troth was plighted, and the wedding took place soon afterwards, though the bride was in great fear that she should not prove so clever at her spinning-wheel as he expected.

Who acts: wedding, bride · What happens: plight, take, be, not prove, expect · To what, where: troth, place, great fear, spinning wheel

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding, bride), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 plighted	advmod
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 troth	nmod:poss
3	troth	troth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plighted	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 plighted	aux:pass
5	plighted	plight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 took	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wedding	det
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 plighted	parataxis
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 took	advmod
13	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	10 took	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fear	punct
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 fear	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bride	det
17	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fear	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fear	cop
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 fear	case
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fear	amod
21	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 prove	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 prove	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 prove	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 prove	advmod
26	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 fear	advcl
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 clever	advmod
28	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 prove	xcomp
29	at	at	ADP	_	33 wheel	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 wheel	nmod:poss
31	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wheel	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 spinning	punct
33	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 prove	obl
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 expected	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 expected	nsubj
36	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 prove	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 plighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	plight	past · passive		hanks's troth			tree rules
2	take	past	the wedding	place		afterwards, soon property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
3	is	past	the bride		great fear		tree rules
4	not prove	should	bride		bride's spinning wheel	clever property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	expect	past	wedding				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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