The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 7

Wherever there was a marriage, a christening, or a feast of any kind, Tiidu must be there, or the evening would be a failure.

Who acts: marriage, Tiidu, evening · What happens: be · To what, where: failure

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marriage, Tiidu, evening), 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	Wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 marriage	det
5	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 christening	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 christening	det
8	christening	christening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marriage	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 feast	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 feast	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 feast	det
12	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marriage	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 kind	case
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 kind	det
15	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feast	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 there	punct
17	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 there	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 there	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 there	cop
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 feast	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 failure	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 failure	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 evening	det
24	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 failure	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 failure	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 failure	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 failure	det
28	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 there	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a marriage and a christening or a feast of any kind		there	wherever property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	must	Tiidu			there property	tree rules
3	is a	would	the evening	a failure			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 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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