The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 63
There was a great crowd assembled to witness the ceremony, for the young people were immense favourites in the neighbourhood, and their parents were very rich.
Who acts: great crowd, young people, parents · What happens: be, assemble · To what, where: ceremony, neighbourhood
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 (great crowd, young people, parents), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 crowd | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 crowd | amod |
| 5 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 crowd | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 witness | mark |
| 8 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 assembled | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ceremony | det |
| 10 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 assembled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 favourites | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 favourites | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 people | amod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 favourites | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 favourites | cop |
| 17 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 favourites | amod |
| 18 | favourites | favourite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 assembled | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 neighbourhood | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 neighbourhood | det |
| 21 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 favourites | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 rich | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 rich | cc |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 parents | nmod:poss |
| 25 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 rich | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 rich | cop |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 rich | advmod |
| 28 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 was | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a great crowd | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | assemble | participle | a great crowd not said here | the ceremony | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the young people | the neighbourhood | for immense favourites | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | past | people's parents | rich 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 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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