The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 106
For this purpose a great banquet was given on the fourth day, and all the people were invited to the palace.
What happens: give, invite · To what, where: great banquet, people
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 purpose | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 purpose | det |
| 3 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 banquet | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 banquet | amod |
| 6 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 given | aux:pass |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 11 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 day | amod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 invited | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 invited | cc |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 people | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 invited | aux:pass |
| 19 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 given | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 invited | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | a great banquet | day | for this purpose | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme for purpose=Asset | |||
| 2 | invite | past · passive | all people | to the palace | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
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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