The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 71
Cloaks in profusion were instantly offered to the young bride, but she was so upset that she could hardly keep from tears.
Who acts: ceremony · What happens: offer, be, keep · To what, where: Cloaks, young bride, tears
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 (ceremony), 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 | Cloaks | cloak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 profusion | case |
| 3 | profusion | profusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cloaks | nmod |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 offered | aux:pass |
| 5 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 6 offered | advmod |
| 6 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 bride | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bride | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bride | amod |
| 10 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 offered | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 upset | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 upset | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 upset | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 upset | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 upset | advmod |
| 16 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 offered | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 keep | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 keep | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 keep | aux |
| 20 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 21 keep | advmod |
| 21 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 upset | advcl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 tears | case |
| 23 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 keep | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past · passive | Cloaks in profusion | the young bride | instantly property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to bride=Goal | |||
| 2 | is | past | ceremony | upset property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | could | ceremony | tears | hardly property | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from tear=Eventuality |
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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