The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 3

At length they arrived in the capital, where the public rejoicings were grander and more brilliant than anywhere else.

Who acts: town, public rejoicings · What happens: arrive, be · To what, where: length

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town, public rejoicings), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 arrived	nsubj
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 capital	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 capital	det
7	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grander	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 grander	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rejoicings	det
11	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rejoicings	amod
12	rejoicings	rejoicing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 grander	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 grander	cop
14	grander	grand	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 capital	amod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 brilliant	cc
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 brilliant	advmod
17	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 grander	conj
18	than	than	ADP	_	19 anywhere	case
19	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 brilliant	advmod
20	else	else	ADV	_	19 anywhere	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	town	length	in the capital	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the public rejoicings		grand property	tree rules
3	be		the public rejoicings not said here		anywhere property	tree rules

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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