The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 112

But as the preparations had been made, it seemed a pity to waste them, so they were married a second time, and sat down to the wedding feast.

Who acts: it · What happens: make, seem, waste, marry, sit down · To what, where: preparations, pity

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 seemed	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 made	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 preparations	det
4	preparations	preparation	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 made	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 made	aux:pass
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 seemed	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seemed	nsubj
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pity	det
12	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seemed	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 waste	mark
14	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 pity	acl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 waste	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 married	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	20 married	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 married	nsubj:pass
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 married	aux:pass
20	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 seemed	xcomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 time	det
22	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 time	amod
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 married	obl:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sat	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sat	cc
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seemed	conj
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 sat	compound:prt
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 feast	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 feast	det
30	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 feast	compound
31	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sat	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · perfect · passive		the preparations			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	seem	past	it	a pity			tree rules
3	waste	to-infinitive		preparations = preparation			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	marry	past · passive		preparations = preparation	time		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	sit down	past				to the wedding feast	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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