The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 85
So, with the same escort, she set out, and reached the palace as the marriage ceremony began.
Who acts: Princess, marriage ceremony · What happens: set out, reach, begin · To what, where: palace
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, marriage ceremony), 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 | _ | 9 set | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 escort | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 escort | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 escort | amod |
| 6 | escort | escort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 escort | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 set | nsubj |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 set | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reached | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 reached | cc |
| 13 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 set | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 began | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ceremony | det |
| 18 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ceremony | compound |
| 19 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 began | nsubj |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 reached | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | Princess | with the same escort | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | Princess not said here | the palace | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the marriage ceremony | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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