The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 28
For three nights and days a great feast was held in honour of the royal guests.
What happens: hold, honour · To what, where: three nights, honour, royal guests
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 nights | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 nights | nummod |
| 3 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 held | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 days | cc |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 nights | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 feast | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feast | amod |
| 8 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 held | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 held | aux:pass |
| 10 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 honour | case |
| 12 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 held | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 guests | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 guests | det |
| 15 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 guests | amod |
| 16 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 honour | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · passive | three nights and days | honour of the royal guests | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in honour=Location | ||||
| 2 | honour | the royal guests | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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