The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 22

Now it happened that a great festival was to be held at the palace, and the King had commanded that all the people should be invited, and that this proclamation should be made:

Who acts: it, King · What happens: happen, hold, command, invite, make · To what, where: great festival, palace, people, proclamation · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (it, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 happened	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 held	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 festival	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 festival	amod
7	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 held	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 held	aux:pass
9	to	to	PART	_	11 held	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 held	aux:pass
11	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happened	advcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 palace	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 palace	det
14	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 held	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 commanded	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 commanded	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 commanded	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 commanded	aux
20	commanded	command	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happened	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 invited	mark
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 people	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 people	det
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 invited	nsubj:pass
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 invited	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 invited	aux:pass
27	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 commanded	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 made	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 made	cc
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 made	mark
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 proclamation	det
32	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 made	nsubj:pass
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 made	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 made	aux:pass
35	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happened	parataxis
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	happen	past	it			now	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold	past · passive		a great festival	the palace		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at palace=Location
3	command	past · perfect	the King				vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent
4	invite	should · passive		all people			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
5	make	should · passive		this proclamation			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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