The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 78

The chief of the bears, the wolves, the foxes, the horses, the cows, the goats, the sheep, and the reindeer, all received invitations; and as they were not accustomed to weddings they were greatly pleased and flattered, and sent back messages in the politest language that they would certainly be there.

Who acts: reindeer, invitations · What happens: receive, not accustom, be, flatter, send back · To what, where: invitations, weddings, messages, politest language

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 (reindeer, invitations), 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 chief	det
2	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 bears	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bears	det
5	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chief	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wolves	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wolves	det
8	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bears	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 foxes	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 foxes	det
11	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bears	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 chief	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 horses	det
14	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chief	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cows	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cows	det
17	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 horses	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 goats	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 goats	det
20	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 horses	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sheep	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sheep	det
23	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 horses	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 reindeer	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 reindeer	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 reindeer	det
27	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chief	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 received	punct
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 received	advmod
30	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 reindeer	acl:relcl
31	invitations	invitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 received	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 accustomed	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 accustomed	cc
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 accustomed	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 accustomed	nsubj:pass
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 accustomed	aux:pass
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 accustomed	advmod
38	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 chief	parataxis
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 weddings	case
40	weddings	wedding	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 accustomed	obl
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 pleased	nsubj
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 pleased	cop
43	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	44 pleased	advmod
44	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 weddings	acl:relcl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 flattered	cc
46	flattered	flatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 accustomed	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 sent	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 sent	cc
49	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 flattered	conj
50	back	back	ADV	_	49 sent	advmod
51	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 sent	obj
52	in	in	ADP	_	55 language	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 language	det
54	politest	polite	ADJ	Degree=Sup	55 language	amod
55	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 messages	nmod
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	61 there	mark
57	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 there	nsubj
58	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 there	aux
59	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	61 there	advmod
60	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	61 there	cop
61	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	55 language	advcl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 chief	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	receive	past	the reindeer not said here	invitations			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme
2	not accustom	past · passive		invitations = invitation		to weddings	tree rules
3	is	past	invitations = invitation	weddings not said here		greatly, pleased property	tree rules
4	flatter	past					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	send back	past		messages	the politest language		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme in language=Destination
6	is	would	invitations = invitation			certainly, there property	tree rules

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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