The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 274

Now Snowdrop’s wicked step-mother was one of the guests invited to the wedding feast.

Who acts: wicked step mother, one · What happens: be, invite · To what, where: one

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked step mother, one), 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	9 one	advmod
2	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mother	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Snowdrop	case
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mother	amod
5	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mother	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 step	punct
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 one	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 one	cop
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 invited	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 guests	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 guests	det
12	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
13	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 feast	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 feast	det
16	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 feast	compound
17	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 invited	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 invited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Snowdrop's wicked step mother	one			now	of the guests	tree rules
2	invite	past	one					to the wedding feast	vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: 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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