The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 1

On the following day the wedding was to take place in the King’s palace, and the elder brother was to drive to church with his bride, and the brother who had been with the giant with her sister.

Who acts: wedding, brother · What happens: follow, take, be, drive · To what, where: place, palace, church

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding, brother), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 palace	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wedding	det
6	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 palace	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 palace	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	9 take	mark
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 palace	csubj
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 palace	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 palace	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 King	case
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 brother	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 brother	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 brother	det
19	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 brother	amod
20	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 palace	conj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 brother	acl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 drive	mark
23	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 was	xcomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 church	case
25	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drive	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 bride	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 bride	nmod:poss
28	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 church	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 giant	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 giant	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 brother	det
32	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 giant	nsubj
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 giant	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 giant	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 giant	cop
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 giant	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 giant	det
38	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 brother	conj
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 sister	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 sister	nmod:poss
41	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 giant	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 palace	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	to-infinitive		place				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
3	is	past	the wedding		the King's palace and the elder brother and the giant	day		tree rules
4	drive	to-infinitive	the wedding not said here		church with King's bride			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to church=Trajectory
5	is	past · perfect	the brother				with the giant; with giant's sister	tree rules

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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