The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 51
Then everything was made ready for the wedding with great splendour and promptitude, and the youth rode to church on Dapplegrim, and the King’s daughter on the other horse.
Who acts: youth · What happens: make, ride · To what, where: everything, daughter, Dapplegrim
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 made | advmod |
| 2 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 made | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 wedding | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wedding | det |
| 8 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 splendour | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 splendour | amod |
| 11 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wedding | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 promptitude | cc |
| 13 | promptitude | promptitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 splendour | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rode | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rode | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 youth | det |
| 17 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rode | nsubj |
| 18 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 church | case |
| 20 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rode | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 Dapplegrim | case |
| 22 | Dapplegrim | Dapplegrim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 rode | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 daughter | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 daughter | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 King | case |
| 28 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rode | obl |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 horse | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 horse | det |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 horse | amod |
| 32 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rode | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | everything | then | for the wedding with great splendour and promptitude; ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Material for wedding=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | ride | past | the youth | the King's daughter | Dapplegrim | to church; on the other horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to church=Trajectory |
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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