The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 108
So the two were married with the most splendid rejoicings, and when they had passed some time at court they went home in a ship to the boy’s own country.
Who acts: beasts · What happens: marry, pass, go · To what, where: two, beasts, ship
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beasts), 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 married | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 two | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 married | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 married | aux:pass |
| 5 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 rejoicings | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rejoicings | det |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 splendid | advmod |
| 9 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rejoicings | amod |
| 10 | rejoicings | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 married | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 passed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 passed | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 passed | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 passed | aux |
| 16 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 married | conj |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 court | case |
| 20 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 time | nmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 passed | conj |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 ship | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 ship | det |
| 26 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 country | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 boy | det |
| 29 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 country | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 boy | case |
| 31 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 country | amod |
| 32 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | the two | with the splendid rejoicings | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pass | past · perfect · passive | beasts = beast | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | go | past | beasts = beast | a ship | time | to the boy's own country; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location |
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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