The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 115
Therefore, as all may well believe, there was joy and merriment at that wedding.
Who acts: all, joy · What happens: believe, be · To what, where: wedding
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 (all, joy), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 10 was | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 believe | mark |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 believe | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 believe | aux |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 believe | advmod |
| 7 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 was | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 believe | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 merriment | cc |
| 13 | merriment | merriment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 joy | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 wedding | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 wedding | det |
| 16 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | may | all | well property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | be | past | joy and merriment | that wedding; there | therefore property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at wedding=Location |
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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