The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 67
Not long after there was a grand wedding; perhaps they may all be alive still, but I don’t know.
Who acts: grand wedding, princes, I · What happens: be, not know
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grand wedding, princes, I), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 alive | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 was | mark |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 long | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wedding | det |
| 7 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wedding | amod |
| 8 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
| 10 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 15 alive | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 alive | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 alive | aux |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 alive | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 alive | cop |
| 15 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 alive | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 know | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 know | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 know | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 know | aux |
| 21 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 know | advmod |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 alive | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 alive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a grand wedding | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | may | princes = prince | still | alive, all, long, perhaps property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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