The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 17
However, the arrival of the king soon settled the matter: the princess was willing and so was Niels, and in a few days the wedding bells were ringing.
Who acts: arrival, princess, wedding bells, king · What happens: settle, be, ring, arrive · To what, where: matter, Niels
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arrival, princess, wedding bells, king), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 9 settled | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 arrival | det |
| 4 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 settled | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrival | nmod |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 settled | advmod |
| 9 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 matter | det |
| 11 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 settled | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 willing | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 willing | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 willing | cop |
| 16 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 settled | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Niels | cc |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 Niels | advmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Niels | cop |
| 20 | Niels | Niels | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 willing | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 ringing | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 ringing | cc |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 days | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 days | det |
| 25 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 days | amod |
| 26 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 ringing | obl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bells | det |
| 28 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bells | compound |
| 29 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 ringing | nsubj |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 ringing | aux |
| 31 | ringing | ring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 settled | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | past | the arrival of the king | the matter | however, soon property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme matter=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | the princess | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the princess not said here | Niels | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ring | past · progressive | the wedding bells | day | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | arrive | the king | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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