The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 83

Invitations were sent out to the friends and relations, and when, on the morning of the great day, they were all assembled, a rough, coarse old peasant left the crowd and came up to the brides’ father.

Who acts: rough coarse old peasant · What happens: send out, assemble, leave, come up · To what, where: Invitations, friends, crowd

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rough coarse old peasant), 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	Invitations	invitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux:pass
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 sent	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 friends	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 friends	det
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 relations	cc
9	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 friends	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 when	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 when	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 sent	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 morning	punct
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 morning	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 morning	det
16	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl:unmarked
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 day	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 day	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 day	amod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 morning	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 assembled	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 assembled	nsubj:pass
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 assembled	aux:pass
24	all	all	ADV	_	25 assembled	advmod
25	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sent	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 left	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 peasant	det
28	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 peasant	amod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rough	punct
30	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 peasant	amod
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 peasant	amod
32	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 left	nsubj
33	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 crowd	det
35	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 left	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 came	cc
37	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 left	conj
38	up	up	ADV	_	37 came	advmod
39	to	to	ADP	_	43 father	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 brides	det
41	brides	bride	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 father	nmod:poss
42	’	's	PART	_	41 brides	case
43	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 came	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	send out	past · passive		Invitations	the friends and relations	morning		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to friend=Destination
2	assemble	past · passive		Invitations = invitation			all property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
3	leave	past	a rough coarse old peasant	the crowd				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crowd=Theme
4	come up	past	a rough coarse old peasant not said here				to the brides's father	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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