The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 80
The wedding was fixed to take place in eight days, and at the ball afterwards nobody danced so long or so lightly as king Balancin.
Who acts: nobody · What happens: fix, take, dance · To what, where: wedding, place, ball
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobody), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wedding | det |
| 2 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fixed | aux:pass |
| 4 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fixed | xcomp |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 9 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 days | nummod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 take | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 danced | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 danced | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 ball | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ball | det |
| 15 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 danced | obl |
| 16 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 18 danced | advmod |
| 17 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 danced | nsubj |
| 18 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fixed | conj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 long | advmod |
| 20 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 danced | advmod |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 lightly | cc |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 lightly | advmod |
| 23 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 20 long | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 Balancin | case |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Balancin | nmod:desc |
| 26 | Balancin | Balancin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 lightly | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past · passive | the wedding | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | place | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dance | past | nobody | the ball | afterwards, long property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at ball=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: «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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