The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 1
Preparations were begun at once for the grandest wedding that had ever been held at the palace.
What happens: begin, hold · To what, where: Preparations, grandest wedding, palace
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 begun | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 begun | aux:pass |
| 3 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 begun | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 wedding | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wedding | det |
| 8 | grandest | grand | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 wedding | amod |
| 9 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begun | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 held | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 held | aux |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 held | advmod |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 held | aux:pass |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 wedding | acl:relcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past · passive | Preparations | for the grandest wedding | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hold | past · perfect · passive | the grandest wedding | the palace | ever | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at palace=Location |
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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