The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 105
So the story ended well after all; and the fairy Tulip, who turned out to be the old woman of the hut, made the young couple such a wedding feast as had never been seen since the world began.
Who acts: story, fairy, world · What happens: end, turn out, be, make, not see, begin · To what, where: fairy, old woman, young couple
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, fairy, world), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 ended | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 ended | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 ended | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 fairy | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fairy | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fairy | det |
| 11 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ended | obl |
| 12 | Tulip | Tulip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 fairy | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 turned | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 turned | nsubj |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fairy | acl:relcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 turned | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 woman | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 woman | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 woman | amod |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turned | xcomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 hut | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hut | det |
| 24 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 woman | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 made | punct |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ended | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 couple | det |
| 28 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 couple | amod |
| 29 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obj |
| 30 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 feast | det:predet |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 feast | det |
| 32 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 feast | compound |
| 33 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obj |
| 34 | as | as | ADV | _ | 38 seen | advmod |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 seen | aux |
| 36 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 38 seen | advmod |
| 37 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 seen | aux:pass |
| 38 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 made | advcl |
| 39 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 42 began | mark |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 world | det |
| 41 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 began | nsubj |
| 42 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 seen | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past | the story | the fairy | after all | well property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | turn out | past | the fairy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | the fairy not said here | the old woman | of the hut | tree rules | |||
| 4 | make | past | the story not said here | the young couple | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset couple=Beneficiary feast=Product | ||||
| 5 | not see | past · perfect · passive | the story not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 6 | begin | past | the world | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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