The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 29
There was such a wedding as had never been seen.
Who acts: wedding · What happens: be, not see · To what, where: wedding
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 wedding | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wedding | det |
| 5 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 seen | advmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 seen | advmod |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 seen | aux:pass |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wedding | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | such wedding | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not see | past · perfect · passive | such wedding not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/4/29/