The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 21
Everything was ready for Bellissima’s wedding.
Who acts: Everything, Bellissima · What happens: be, wed
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: who acts (Everything, Bellissima), 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 ready | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ready | cop |
| 3 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 wedding | case |
| 5 | Bellissima | Bellissima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Bellissima | case |
| 7 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ready | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Everything | for Bellissima's wedding; ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wed | Bellissima | nom wedding «event transitive»: 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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