The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 54
After she had been married a few months the bride wanted to go into the city and buy herself some new dresses.
Who acts: bride · What happens: marry, want, go, buy · To what, where: wife, city
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 married | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 married | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 married | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 married | aux:pass |
| 5 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 wanted | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 months | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 months | amod |
| 8 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wanted | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bride | det |
| 10 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wanted | nsubj |
| 11 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wanted | xcomp |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 city | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 city | det |
| 16 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 buy | cc |
| 18 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 go | conj |
| 19 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 buy | obj |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 dresses | det |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dresses | amod |
| 22 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 buy | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · perfect · passive | wife | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | want | past | the bride | month | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the bride not said here | the city | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into city=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | buy | infinitive | the bride not said here | wife | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary dress=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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