The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 123
The wedding was at once celebrated and there was feasting and merry-making throughout the kingdom for six weeks.
What happens: celebrate, feast, make · To what, where: wedding
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wedding | det |
| 2 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 celebrated | obl |
| 6 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 feasting | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 feasting | expl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 feasting | aux |
| 10 | feasting | feast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 celebrated | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 making | cc |
| 12 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 making | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 merry | punct |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 feasting | conj |
| 15 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 17 kingdom | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kingdom | det |
| 17 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 making | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 weeks | case |
| 19 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 weeks | nummod |
| 20 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 making | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 celebrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | past · passive | the wedding | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | feast | past · progressive | there | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | throughout the kingdom; week | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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