The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 52

The wedding took place with great splendour, and for a whole week the town was hung with coloured lamps, and tables were spread in the hall of the castle for all who chose to come and eat.

Who acts: wedding, castle · What happens: take, hang, spread, choose, come, eat · To what, where: place, town, tables, hall

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding, castle), 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 wedding	det
2	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 splendour	case
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 splendour	amod
7	splendour	splendour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hung	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hung	cc
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 week	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 week	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 week	amod
13	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hung	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 town	det
15	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hung	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hung	aux:pass
17	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 took	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 lamps	case
19	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lamps	amod
20	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hung	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 spread	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 spread	cc
23	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 spread	nsubj:pass
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 spread	aux:pass
25	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 took	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 hall	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hall	det
28	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spread	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 castle	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 castle	det
31	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hall	nmod
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 all	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 castle	nmod
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 chose	nsubj
35	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 castle	acl:relcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 come	mark
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 chose	xcomp
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 eat	cc
39	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 come	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the wedding	place			with great splendour	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
2	hang	past · passive		the town		week	with coloured lamps	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with lamp=Instrument
3	spread	past · passive		tables	the hall of the castle for all			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in hall=Destination
4	choose	past	the castle for all					tree rules
5	come	to-infinitive	the castle for all not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	eat	infinitive	the castle for all not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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