The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 126
So the wedding was celebrated with much splendor and little joy, and the tailor became a king.
Who acts: tailor · What happens: celebrate, become · To what, where: wedding, king
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor), 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 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 | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 splendor | case |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 splendor | amod |
| 8 | splendor | splendor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 celebrated | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 joy | cc |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 joy | amod |
| 11 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 splendor | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 became | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 became | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tailor | det |
| 15 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 became | nsubj |
| 16 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 celebrated | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 became | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 celebrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | past · passive | the wedding | with much splendor and little joy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | the tailor | a king | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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