The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 43
Then the young man went home to his parents, and bade them get ready to welcome his bride.
Who acts: young man, bade · What happens: go, get, welcome · To what, where: bade, bride
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, bade), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 parents | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 parents | nmod:poss |
| 9 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 get | cc |
| 12 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bade | obj |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 15 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 get | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 welcome | mark |
| 17 | welcome | welcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ready | xcomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bride | nmod:poss |
| 19 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 welcome | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the young man | then | to man's parents; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to parent=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | get | present | the young man not said here | bade | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | welcome | to-infinitive | bade not said here | man's bride | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme |
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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