The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 46
For a long time it was very dull--all about their wedding day next month, and who were to be invited.
Who acts: conversation · What happens: be, invite
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conversation), 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 | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dull | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dull | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dull | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 dull | advmod |
| 8 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 day | punct |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 day | advmod |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 day | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | compound |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dull | conj |
| 15 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 month | amod |
| 16 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 invited | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 invited | cc |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 invited | aux:pass |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 invited | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 invited | aux:pass |
| 23 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 dull | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | conversation | time | dull property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | invite | past · passive | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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