The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 11
The wedding feast was continued the next day, or, rather, the days following the celebration were a continual feast.
Who acts: days · What happens: continue, follow, be · To what, where: wedding feast, celebration, continual feast
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 feast | det |
| 2 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feast | compound |
| 3 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continued | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 continued | aux:pass |
| 5 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 day | amod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continued | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 feast | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 feast | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 feast | punct |
| 12 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 22 feast | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rather | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 days | det |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 feast | nsubj |
| 16 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 days | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 celebration | det |
| 18 | celebration | celebration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 following | obj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 feast | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 feast | det |
| 21 | continual | continual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 feast | amod |
| 22 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continued | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past · passive | the wedding feast | day | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | the days not said here | the celebration | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent celebration=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the days | a continual feast | tree rules |
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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