The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 61
But none of the animals that went to the miller’s wedding ever came back.
Who acts: none, wedding, miller · What happens: go, come back, wed · To what, where: wedding
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none, wedding, miller), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 2 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 7 went | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 animals | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 animals | det |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 none | nmod |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 wedding | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 miller | det |
| 10 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 miller | case |
| 12 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 came | advmod |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wedding | acl:relcl |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | none | the miller's wedding | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wedding=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | come back | past | the miller's wedding not said here | ever | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wed | the miller | nom wedding «event 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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