Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 31
Some time after that, there was a fine wedding at the finest church in London; and Miss Alice became the wife of Mr. Richard Whittington.
Who acts: fine wedding, Miss · What happens: be, become · To what, where: wife
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fine wedding, Miss), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 that | case |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wedding | det |
| 9 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wedding | amod |
| 10 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 church | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 church | det |
| 13 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 church | amod |
| 14 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wedding | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 London | case |
| 16 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 church | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 became | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Miss | cc |
| 19 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 became | nsubj |
| 20 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Miss | flat |
| 21 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 was | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wife | det |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 became | xcomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Richard | case |
| 25 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Richard | nmod:desc |
| 26 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 wife | nmod |
| 27 | Whittington | Whittington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Richard | flat |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a fine wedding at the finest church in London | there | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | become | past | Miss | the wife of Richard Mr. | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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