The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 75
And in three days the wedding was celebrated, and the wedding feast was held, and everyone who saw the bride declared that if anybody wanted a perfect wife they must go to seek her on top of a tree.
Who acts: everyone, anybody, pearls · What happens: celebrate, hold, see, declare, want, go · To what, where: wedding, wedding feast, bride, perfect wife, wife, top
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everyone, anybody, pearls), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 celebrated | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 celebrated | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wedding | det |
| 6 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 8 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 held | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 held | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 feast | det |
| 12 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feast | compound |
| 13 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 held | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 held | aux:pass |
| 15 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 celebrated | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 declared | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 declared | cc |
| 18 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 23 declared | nsubj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 everyone | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bride | det |
| 22 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | obj |
| 23 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 celebrated | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 wanted | mark |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 wanted | mark |
| 26 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 27 wanted | nsubj |
| 27 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 declared | advcl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 wife | det |
| 29 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 wife | amod |
| 30 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wanted | obj |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 go | nsubj |
| 32 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 go | aux |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 wife | acl:relcl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 seek | mark |
| 35 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 go | xcomp |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 seek | obj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 top | case |
| 38 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 seek | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 tree | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 tree | det |
| 41 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 top | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 celebrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | past · passive | the wedding | day | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | past · passive | the wedding feast | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | the bride | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bride=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | declare speech: other | past | everyone | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | want a condition, not said to happen | past | anybody | a perfect wife | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wife=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go | must | pearls = pearl | a perfect wife not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | seek | to-infinitive | pearls = pearl not said here | wife | top of a tree | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme on top=Location |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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