The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 2

There was not much delay about the marriages, and they were all celebrated on the one day.

Who acts: much delay · What happens: be, celebrate · To what, where: marriages

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much delay), 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	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 delay	amod
5	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 marriages	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 marriages	det
8	marriages	marriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 delay	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 celebrated	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 celebrated	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 celebrated	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 celebrated	aux:pass
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 celebrated	advmod
14	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 was	parataxis
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 day	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 day	det
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 day	nummod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 celebrated	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	much delay about the marriages			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	celebrate	past · passive		marriages = marriage			day	all property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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