The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 105
So they at once began to prepare for the wedding festivities.
Who acts: winds · What happens: begin, prepare
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (winds), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 began | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 began | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 began | obl |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 prepare | mark |
| 7 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 festivities | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 festivities | det |
| 10 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 festivities | compound |
| 11 | festivities | festivity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 prepare | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | winds = wind | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | prepare | to-infinitive | winds = wind not said here | for the wedding festivities | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for festivity=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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