The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 66
The news that the prince had brought home a bride had gone before them, and they were greeted with flowery arches and crowns of coloured lights.
Who acts: news · What happens: bring, go, greet, crown · To what, where: prince, sailors, coloured lights
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 news | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 brought | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | aux |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 news | acl:relcl |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 brought | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bride | det |
| 10 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gone | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gone | aux |
| 12 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gone | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 greeted | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 greeted | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 greeted | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 greeted | aux:pass |
| 19 | greeted | greet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 gone | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 arches | case |
| 21 | flowery | flowery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 arches | amod |
| 22 | arches | arch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 greeted | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 crowns | cc |
| 24 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 arches | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 lights | case |
| 26 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lights | amod |
| 27 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 crowns | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the news not said here | the prince | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | |||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | the news | before sailors = sailor | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before they=Location | ||||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | past · passive | sailors = sailor | with flowery arches and crowns of coloured lights | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | crown | coloured lights | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=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: «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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