The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 6
After the ceremonies of the christening were over, all the company returned to the King’s palace, where was prepared a great feast for the fairies.
Who acts: ceremonies, company · What happens: be, return, prepare · To what, where: great feast
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ceremonies, company), 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 | _ | 8 over | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ceremonies | det |
| 3 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 over | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 christening | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 christening | det |
| 6 | christening | christening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ceremonies | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 over | cop |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 returned | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 over | punct |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 company | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 company | det |
| 12 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 returned | nsubj |
| 13 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 palace | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 King | case |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 returned | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 prepared | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 prepared | advmod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 prepared | aux:pass |
| 22 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 palace | acl:relcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 feast | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 feast | amod |
| 25 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 prepared | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 fairies | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fairies | det |
| 28 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 feast | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the ceremonies of the christening | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | past | all company | to the King's palace result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | ||||
| 3 | prepare | past · passive | a great feast | for the fairies | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: feast=Product for fairy=Beneficiary |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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