The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 108
Up at the farm a great feast was made ready for the Princesses, and much respect paid to them, but they would not stay there.
Who acts: Heavens · What happens: make, pay, not stay · To what, where: great feast, farm, much respect, Heavens
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heavens), 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 9 made | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 farm | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 farm | det |
| 4 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 feast | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feast | amod |
| 7 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux:pass |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 made | xcomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Princesses | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princesses | det |
| 13 | Princesses | Princess | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 ready | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stay | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stay | cc |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 respect | amod |
| 17 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stay | discourse |
| 18 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 respect | acl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 paid | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stay | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 stay | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 stay | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 stay | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 stay | advmod |
| 26 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | conj |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 stay | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | a great feast | the farm | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 2 | pay | participle | much respect not said here | Heavens = heaven | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not stay | would | Heavens = heaven | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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