The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 118
As soon as they returned home, the marriage was concluded.
Who acts: daughters · What happens: return, conclude · To what, where: marriage
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 returned | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 returned | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 returned | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 concluded | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 marriage | det |
| 9 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 concluded | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 concluded | aux:pass |
| 11 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 returned | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | daughters = daughter | home, soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | conclude | past · passive | the marriage | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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