The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 81
The King lifted the lonely maiden on to his horse, and led her to his castle, where the wedding was celebrated with the greatest splendour.
Who acts: King · What happens: lift, lead, celebrate · To what, where: horse, castle, wedding
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maiden | det |
| 5 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 maiden | amod |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lifted | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 horse | case |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 on | fixed |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 horse | nmod:poss |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 led | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 led | cc |
| 13 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 led | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 castle | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 castle | nmod:poss |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 led | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 celebrated | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 celebrated | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wedding | det |
| 21 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 23 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 castle | acl:relcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 splendour | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 splendour | det |
| 26 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 splendour | amod |
| 27 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 celebrated | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | the King | on King's horse; maiden property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on horse=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | the King not said here | horse | King's castle | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to castle=Destination | |||
| 3 | celebrate | past · passive | the wedding | with the greatest splendour | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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