The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 129
A little while after this grand preparations were made for the king’s marriage, and all the tailors in the town were busy embroidering fine clothes.
Who acts: tailors, king · What happens: make, be, embroider, marry · To what, where: little while, fine clothes
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailors, king), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 while | amod |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 preparations | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 preparations | det |
| 6 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 preparations | amod |
| 7 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 while | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux:pass |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 marriage | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 king | case |
| 14 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 busy | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 busy | cc |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 tailors | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tailors | det |
| 19 | tailors | tailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 busy | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 town | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 town | det |
| 22 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tailors | nmod |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 busy | cop |
| 24 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 made | parataxis |
| 25 | embroidering | embroider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 busy | advcl |
| 26 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 clothes | amod |
| 27 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 25 embroidering | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | a little while after this grand preparations | for the king's marriage | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for marriage=Asset | ||||
| 2 | is | past | all tailors in the town | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | embroider | gerund | all tailors in the town not said here | fine clothes | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Product | ||||
| 4 | marry | the king | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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