The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 4
And married they were then and there upon the river bank, and went home to the prince’s palace, where, when the story was told, they were welcomed by the old rajah, the prince’s father, and the remainder of the day was given over to feasting and rejoicing.
Who acts: wazirs, old rajah · What happens: marry, be, go, tell, welcome, give over · To what, where: palace, story, wazirs, remainder, feasting · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wazirs, old rajah), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 married | cc |
| 2 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 there | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 there | cop |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 there | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 there | cc |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 married | conj |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 bank | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bank | det |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bank | compound |
| 11 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 there | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 married | conj |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 palace | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prince | det |
| 18 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 palace | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 prince | case |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 where | punct |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 palace | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 told | punct |
| 24 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 28 told | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 story | det |
| 26 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 told | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 told | aux:pass |
| 28 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 palace | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 welcomed | punct |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 welcomed | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 welcomed | aux:pass |
| 32 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 married | conj |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 rajah | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 rajah | det |
| 35 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 rajah | amod |
| 36 | rajah | rajah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 welcomed | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 father | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 prince | det |
| 39 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 father | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 prince | case |
| 41 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 rajah | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 given | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 given | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 remainder | det |
| 45 | remainder | remainder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 given | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 day | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 day | det |
| 48 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 remainder | nmod |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 given | aux:pass |
| 50 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 welcomed | conj |
| 51 | over | over | ADP | _ | 50 given | compound:prt |
| 52 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 feasting | case |
| 53 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 given | obl |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 rejoicing | cc |
| 55 | rejoicing | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 feasting | conj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | wazirs = wazir | then | upon the river bank; there property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go | past | the prince's palace | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | the story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | welcome | past · passive | the old rajah and the prince's father | wazirs = wazir | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | give over | past · passive | the remainder of the day | feasting and rejoicing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to feasting=Recipient |
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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