The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 136
The wedding of Hans and the princess was celebrated with great festivities which lasted a month.
Who acts: great festivities · What happens: celebrate, last, wed · To what, where: wedding, Hans
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great festivities), 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 | 9 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Hans | case |
| 4 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 wedding | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 princess | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Hans | conj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 9 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 festivities | case |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 festivities | amod |
| 12 | festivities | festivity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 celebrated | obl |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lasted | nsubj |
| 14 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 festivities | acl:relcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 month | det |
| 16 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lasted | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 celebrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | past · passive | the wedding of Hans and the princess | with great festivities | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | last | past | great festivities | month | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wed | Hans and the princess | nom wedding «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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