The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 62
A great wedding banquet was prepared, and after three days of feasting the happy pair were accompanied to the frontier with much ceremony and rejoicing.
Who acts: great wedding banquet, three days · What happens: be, feast, accompany · To what, where: happy pair, frontier
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great wedding banquet, three 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 banquet | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 banquet | amod |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 banquet | compound |
| 4 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prepared | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 prepared | cop |
| 6 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 accompanied | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 accompanied | cc |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 days | case |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 days | nummod |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 accompanied | obl |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 feasting | mark |
| 13 | feasting | feast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 days | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pair | det |
| 15 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pair | amod |
| 16 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feasting | obj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 accompanied | aux:pass |
| 18 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 prepared | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 frontier | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 frontier | det |
| 21 | frontier | frontier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 accompanied | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 ceremony | case |
| 23 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ceremony | amod |
| 24 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 frontier | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 rejoicing | cc |
| 26 | rejoicing | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ceremony | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a great wedding banquet | prepared property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feast | gerund | three days not said here | the happy pair | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | accompany | past · passive | a great wedding banquet not said here | the frontier with much ceremony and rejoicing | day | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to frontier=Destination |
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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