The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 130
The brothers Simon were sent again to the Island of Busan with a letter to the king from his daughter to invite him to their wedding.
Who acts: rejoicings · What happens: send, invite, wed · To what, where: brothers, Island, brother
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brothers | det |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 brothers | appos |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | aux:pass |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 sent | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Island | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Island | det |
| 9 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Busan | case |
| 11 | Busan | Busan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Island | nmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 letter | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 letter | det |
| 14 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 king | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 letter | nmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 daughter | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 letter | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 invite | mark |
| 22 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sent | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 invite | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 wedding | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 invite | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | the brothers | the Island of Busan | again | with a letter to the king from king's daughter | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to island=Destination | ||
| 2 | invite | to-infinitive | brother | to rejoicings's wedding | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | wed | rejoicings = rejoicing | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=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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