The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 91
Then the wedding was celebrated, the dance began, and the bride joined in, but Trusty John watched her countenance carefully.
Who acts: dance, bride, Trusty · What happens: celebrate, begin, join in, watch · To what, where: wedding, countenance
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dance, bride, Trusty), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 celebrated | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wedding | det |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 5 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 began | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 celebrated | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dance | det |
| 8 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 joined | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 joined | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bride | det |
| 13 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 joined | nsubj |
| 14 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 began | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 joined | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 watched | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 watched | cc |
| 18 | Trusty | Trusty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 watched | nsubj |
| 19 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Trusty | flat |
| 20 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 began | advcl |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 22 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 watched | obj |
| 23 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 20 watched | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | past · passive | the wedding | then | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the dance | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | join in | participle | the bride | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | watch | past | Trusty | bride's countenance | carefully property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent countenance=Theme |
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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