The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 81
So all three returned happily home, and the wedding was celebrated three days after.
Who acts: three · What happens: return, celebrate · To what, where: wedding
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three), 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 returned | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 three | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 6 home | advmod |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 returned | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 celebrated | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 celebrated | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wedding | det |
| 10 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 12 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 returned | conj |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 days | nummod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 after | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | after | after | ADV | _ | 12 celebrated | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | all three | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | celebrate | past · passive | the wedding | after property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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