The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 57
At Christmastide that year, when families met together and great feasts were held, Ian, the youngest of the three brothers, said:
Who acts: families · What happens: meet, hold, say · To what, where: great feasts, Christmastide · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (families), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 Christmastide | case |
| 2 | Christmastide | Christmastide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 said | obl |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 year | det |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Christmastide | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 met | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 met | advmod |
| 7 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 met | nsubj |
| 8 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 year | acl:relcl |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 met | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 held | cc |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 feasts | amod |
| 12 | feasts | feast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 held | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 held | aux:pass |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 met | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ian | punct |
| 16 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 youngest | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 youngest | det |
| 19 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 Ian | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 brothers | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 brothers | det |
| 22 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 brothers | nummod |
| 23 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 youngest | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Christmastide | punct |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | families | together property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hold | past · passive | great feasts | Ian obl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Christmastide | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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