The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 13
After that the bride was led aside by her father, whose duty it was to bestow on her some parting advice as to her conduct in her married life.
Who acts: father, blessing, bride · What happens: lead, be, conduct · To what, where: bride, parting advice
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, blessing, 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 led | mark |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 After | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bride | det |
| 4 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 led | aux:pass |
| 6 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 bestow | advcl |
| 7 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 6 led | advmod |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 father | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 duty | punct |
| 12 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 duty | nmod:poss |
| 13 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 father | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bestow | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 bestow | cop |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 bestow | mark |
| 17 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 advice | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 advice | nmod:poss |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 advice | det |
| 21 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 advice | compound |
| 22 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bestow | obl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 26 conduct | case |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 as | fixed |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 26 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 advice | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 life | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 life | nmod:poss |
| 29 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 life | amod |
| 30 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bestow | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 bestow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past · passive | bride's father and bride's father and father's duty's duty | the bride | aside property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | blessing | bride's parting advice as bride's conduct | in bride's married life; bestow property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | conduct | bride | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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