The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 13
At the end of an hour they arrived at a splendid castle, and Tephany, who would not move, was lifted out and carried into the hall, while a priest was sent for to perform the marriage ceremony.
Who acts: horses, Tephany · What happens: arrive, not move, lift out, carry, send, perform · To what, where: end, Tephany, hall, priest, marriage ceremony
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses, Tephany), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hour | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hour | det |
| 6 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 arrived | nsubj |
| 8 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 castle | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 11 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 castle | amod |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lifted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lifted | cc |
| 15 | Tephany | Tephany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 move | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 move | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 move | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 move | advmod |
| 20 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 Tephany | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Tephany | punct |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lifted | aux:pass |
| 23 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 arrived | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 lifted | compound:prt |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 carried | cc |
| 26 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lifted | conj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 hall | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hall | det |
| 29 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 carried | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sent | punct |
| 31 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 35 sent | mark |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 priest | det |
| 33 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 sent | aux:pass |
| 35 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 carried | conj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 sent | obl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 perform | mark |
| 38 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 sent | advcl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 ceremony | det |
| 40 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ceremony | compound |
| 41 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 perform | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | horses = horse | at the end of a hour | at a splendid castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not move | would | Tephany | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lift out | past · passive | Tephany | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | carry | past | the hall | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | send | past · passive | a priest | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | perform | to-infinitive | the marriage ceremony | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceremony=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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