The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 44
My wedding feast must not lack guests.
Who acts: wedding feast · What happens: not lack · To what, where: guests
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding feast), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 feast | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feast | compound |
| 3 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lack | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 lack | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 lack | advmod |
| 6 | lack | lack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lack | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lack | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lack | must | My wedding feast | guests | 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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