The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 62
The old people welcomed them heartily, and summoned their neighbours, for many miles round, to a great feast in their honour.
Who acts: old people, sounds · What happens: welcome, summon, honour · To what, where: sounds, neighbours
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old people, sounds), 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 | 3 people | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 welcomed | nsubj |
| 4 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 welcomed | obj |
| 6 | heartily | heartily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 welcomed | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 summoned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 summoned | cc |
| 9 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 welcomed | conj |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 11 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 summoned | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 miles | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 miles | case |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 miles | amod |
| 15 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 summoned | obl |
| 16 | round | round | ADV | _ | 15 miles | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 feast | punct |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 feast | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 feast | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 feast | amod |
| 21 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 summoned | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 honour | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 honour | nmod:poss |
| 24 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feast | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 welcomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | welcome | past | the old people | sounds = sound | heartily property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | summon | past | the old people not said here | sounds's neighbours | for many miles; to a great feast in sounds's honour | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Recipient | |||
| 3 | honour | sounds = sound | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=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 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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