Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 25

Everything went off excellently well, and they made merry till the time came when bride and bridegroom were to sit down together on the bridal bench.

Who acts: Everything, soldiers, time, bride · What happens: go off, make, come, sit down · To what, where: bridal bench

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, soldiers, time, bride), 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	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt
4	excellently	excellently	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 excellently	fixed
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 made	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
10	merry	merry	ADV	_	9 made	advmod
11	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	advcl
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 sit	advmod
16	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sit	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bridegroom	cc
18	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bride	conj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sit	aux
20	to	to	PART	_	21 sit	mark
21	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 came	advcl
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 sit	compound:prt
23	together	together	ADV	_	21 sit	advmod
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 bench	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bench	det
26	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bench	amod
27	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sit	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go off	past	Everything		excellently property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	make	past	soldiers = soldier		merry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	come	past	the time			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sit down	past	bride and bridegroom	the bridal bench	together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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