The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 18

A few weeks after that the Black Gallows Bird had news of a wedding that was to be held near the town; and the bridegroom had many friends and everybody sent him a present.

Who acts: few weeks, bridegroom, everybody · What happens: have, hold, send · To what, where: news, wedding, town, many friends, present, bridegroom

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few weeks, bridegroom, everybody), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 weeks	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 weeks	amod
3	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	nsubj
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Gallows	det
7	Black	Black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Gallows	amod
8	Gallows	Gallows	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 had	nsubj
9	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Gallows	compound
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 wedding	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wedding	det
14	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 news	nmod
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 held	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 held	aux:pass
17	to	to	PART	_	19 held	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 held	aux:pass
19	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 wedding	acl:relcl
20	near	near	ADP	_	22 town	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 town	det
22	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 held	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bridegroom	det
26	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	parataxis
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 friends	amod
29	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 had	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sent	cc
31	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	32 sent	nsubj
32	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 had	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sent	obj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 present	det
35	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sent	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	a few weeks	news of a wedding			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Patient
2	hold	past · passive	a few weeks not said here	a wedding		the town	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme near town=Location
3	have	past	the bridegroom	many friends			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient
4	send	past	everybody	a present	bridegroom		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination present=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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