The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 84
We are bidden to the royal banquet.’
What happens: bid · To what, where: We
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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bidden | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bidden | aux:pass |
| 3 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 banquet | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 banquet | det |
| 6 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 banquet | amod |
| 7 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bidden | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bidden | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 bidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | present · passive | We | to the royal banquet | tree rules |
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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