The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 109
So all was made ready for the wedding, and the King said that it was to be so stately and magnificent that everyone should hear of it, and everyone inquire about it.
Who acts: King, wedding, everyone · What happens: make, say, be, inquire · To what, where: all · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, wedding, everyone), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | 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 | 5 ready | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 hear | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 hear | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 hear | cop |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 stately | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 stately | cop |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 stately | advmod |
| 20 | stately | stately | ADV | _ | 26 hear | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 magnificent | cc |
| 22 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stately | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 hear | mark |
| 24 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 26 hear | nsubj |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 hear | aux |
| 26 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 hear | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 inquire | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 inquire | cc |
| 31 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 32 inquire | nsubj |
| 32 | inquire | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 33 | about | about | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 inquire | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | all | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | stately property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 5 | is | should · past | wedding | of kingdom; hear property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | inquire speech: other | present | everyone | about kingdom | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about it=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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