The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 14
Many other ceremonies took place at my departure.
Who acts: Many other ceremonies, my · What happens: take, depart · To what, where: place, departure
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many other ceremonies, my), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ceremonies | amod |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ceremonies | amod |
| 3 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 departure | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 departure | nmod:poss |
| 8 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Many other ceremonies | place | my departure | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at departure=Asset | |||
| 2 | depart | my | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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