The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 173
So when, as was the usage and custom, all were to drink to the bride and the young girls who were present, the cup-bearer filled the cup for each in turn, both bride and bridegroom, and knights and servants, and at last, after a very long time, he came to Halvor.
Who acts: all, young girls, cup bearer, knights · What happens: be, drink, fill, come · To what, where: cup, turn, Halvor, last
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 (all, young girls, cup bearer, knights), 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 | _ | 2 when | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 usage | punct |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 usage | case |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 usage | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 usage | det |
| 7 | usage | usage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 when | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 custom | cc |
| 9 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 usage | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drink | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 drink | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 drink | aux |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 drink | mark |
| 14 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 usage | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 bride | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bride | det |
| 17 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drink | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 girls | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 girls | det |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 girls | amod |
| 21 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bride | conj |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 present | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 present | cop |
| 24 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 girls | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 filled | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bearer | det |
| 27 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bearer | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 cup | punct |
| 29 | bearer | bearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 filled | nsubj |
| 30 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 bride | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 cup | det |
| 32 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 filled | obj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 each | case |
| 34 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 filled | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 turn | case |
| 36 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 filled | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 bride | punct |
| 38 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 bride | det |
| 39 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 turn | conj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 bridegroom | cc |
| 41 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 turn | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 came | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 came | cc |
| 44 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 59 came | nsubj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 servants | cc |
| 46 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 knights | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 came | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 came | cc |
| 49 | at | at | ADP | _ | 50 last | case |
| 50 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 came | obl |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 last | punct |
| 52 | after | after | ADP | _ | 56 time | case |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 time | det |
| 54 | very | very | ADV | _ | 55 long | advmod |
| 55 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 time | amod |
| 56 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 last | obl |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 last | punct |
| 58 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 59 came | nsubj |
| 59 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 drink | conj |
| 60 | to | to | ADP | _ | 61 Halvor | case |
| 61 | Halvor | Halvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 59 came | obl |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 when | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | as the usage and custom | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drink | past | all | to the bride and the young girls | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the young girls | present property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fill | past | the cup bearer | the cup | turn and both bride and bridegroom | for each | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cup=Patient | ||
| 5 | come | past | knights and servants | Halvor | last | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to halvor=Initial_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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