The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 2
Then the king gave each brother a goblet of wine and invited them to the wedding feast.
Who acts: king · What happens: give, invite · To what, where: goblet, brother, taxes
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 brother | det |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 goblet | det |
| 8 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wine | case |
| 10 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 goblet | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 invited | cc |
| 12 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 invited | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 feast | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 feast | det |
| 16 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 feast | compound |
| 17 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 invited | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the king | a goblet of wine | each brother | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient goblet=Theme | ||
| 2 | invite | past | the king not said here | taxes = tax | to the wedding feast | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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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