The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 108
Throughout the kingdom there was nothing but joy; and THIS time the wedding was REALLY celebrated.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: be, celebrate · To what, where: kingdom, time
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing), 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 | Throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 3 kingdom | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kingdom | det |
| 3 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 was | nsubj |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 joy | cc |
| 8 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nothing | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 celebrated | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 celebrated | cc |
| 11 | THIS | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wedding | det |
| 14 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 16 | REALLY | really | ADV | _ | 17 celebrated | advmod |
| 17 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 was | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | nothing | the kingdom; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme throughout kingdom=Location | ||||
| 2 | celebrate | past · passive | this time | 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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