The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 67

It will be easy to understand that two weddings took place, and they were so magnificent that they were heard of and talked about all over seven kingdoms.

Who acts: two weddings, weddings · What happens: be, understand, take, hear, talk · To what, where: place, weddings · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (two weddings, weddings), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 easy	expl
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 easy	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 easy	cop
4	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 understand	mark
6	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 easy	csubj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 took	mark
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 weddings	nummod
9	weddings	wedding	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	ccomp
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 magnificent	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 magnificent	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 magnificent	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 magnificent	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 magnificent	advmod
17	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 easy	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 heard	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 heard	aux:pass
21	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 magnificent	advcl
22	of	of	ADP	_	21 heard	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 talked	cc
24	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 heard	conj
25	about	about	ADP	_	29 kingdoms	case
26	all	all	ADV	_	29 kingdoms	advmod
27	over	over	ADP	_	29 kingdoms	case
28	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 kingdoms	nummod
29	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 talked	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 easy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	future			easy property	tree rules
2	understand	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	take	past	two weddings	place		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
4	is	past	weddings = wedding		magnificent property	tree rules
5	hear	past · passive		weddings = wedding		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
6	talk	participle			about seven kingdoms	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about kingdom=Topic

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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