Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 85
Such was the betrothal, and then came the wedding, with bride's-maids and wedding presents, all duly mentioned in the wedding speech.
Who acts: Such, wedding, bride's maids · What happens: be, come, mention · To what, where: betrothal, all, wedding speech
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such, wedding, bride's maids), 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 | Such | Such | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 betrothal | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 betrothal | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 betrothal | det |
| 4 | betrothal | betrothal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 came | advmod |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 betrothal | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wedding | det |
| 10 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 maids | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 maids | case |
| 13 | bride's | bride' | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 maids | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 bride's | punct |
| 15 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 presents | cc |
| 17 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 presents | compound |
| 18 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 maids | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 mentioned | punct |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 mentioned | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | duly | duly | ADV | _ | 22 mentioned | advmod |
| 22 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 maids | acl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 speech | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 speech | det |
| 25 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 speech | compound |
| 26 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mentioned | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 betrothal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Such | the betrothal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the wedding | the betrothal not said here | then | with bride's maids and wedding presents | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location betrothal=Theme | ||
| 3 | mention speech: other | participle · passive | bride's maids and wedding presents not said here | all | the wedding speech | duly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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