The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 58

This did not take long either; and people who were at the wedding feast declared that the best part of the whole day was the hour when Tiidu played to them on the pipes before they bade each other farewell and returned to their homes.

Who acts: This, people, best part, Tiidu · What happens: not take, be, play, bade, return · To what, where: wedding feast, hour, people, pipes, other farewell

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, people, best part, Tiidu), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 take	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 take	advmod
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 take	advmod
6	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 take	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 declared	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 declared	cc
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 declared	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 declared	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 declared	cop
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 feast	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 feast	det
14	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 feast	compound
15	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 declared	obl
16	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 take	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 hour	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 part	det
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 part	amod
20	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hour	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 day	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 day	det
23	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 day	amod
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 part	nmod
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 hour	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hour	det
27	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 declared	advcl
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 played	advmod
29	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 played	nsubj
30	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 declared	advcl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 played	obl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 pipes	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 pipes	det
35	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 played	obl
36	before	before	SCONJ	_	38 bade	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 bade	nsubj
38	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 played	advcl
39	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	41 farewell	det
40	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 farewell	amod
41	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bade	obj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 returned	cc
43	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 bade	conj
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 homes	case
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 homes	nmod:poss
46	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 returned	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not take	past · do-support	This				either, long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	people			the wedding feast	declare property	tree rules
3	is a	past	the best part of the whole day	the hour				tree rules
4	play	past	Tiidu		people	the pipes		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bade	present	people	each other farewell				tree rules
6	return	past	people not said here				to people's homes result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result

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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