The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 82
The marriage was celebrated with much pomp and ceremony, but the bride neither spoke nor laughed.
Who acts: bride · What happens: celebrate, speak, laugh · To what, where: marriage · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 marriage | det |
| 2 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 4 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 pomp | case |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pomp | amod |
| 7 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 celebrated | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ceremony | cc |
| 9 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pomp | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spoke | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 spoke | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bride | det |
| 13 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spoke | nsubj |
| 14 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 15 spoke | advmod |
| 15 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 celebrated | parataxis |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 laughed | cc |
| 17 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 spoke | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 celebrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | past · passive | the marriage | with much pomp and ceremony | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the bride | neither property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | laugh | past | the bride not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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