The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 114
And when they were all over the young couple went to the palace prepared for them, which was so large that it was three miles round.
Who acts: balls, palace · What happens: be, prepare · To what, where: young couple, palace
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (balls, palace), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 went | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | cop |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 couple | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 couple | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 couple | amod |
| 9 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 palace | acl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 prepared | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 large | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 large | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 large | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 large | advmod |
| 21 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 palace | amod |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 round | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 round | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 round | cop |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 miles | nummod |
| 26 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 round | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | round | round | ADV | _ | 21 large | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | balls = ball | the young couple | to the palace; all, go property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | prepare | participle | the palace not said here | for balls = ball | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the palace | large property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | palace | three miles obl:unmarked; round 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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