The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 130

The wedding garment was so beautiful nothing like it had ever been seen before, but when it was almost finished the tailor found that he had no more silk.

Who acts: wedding garment, tailor, marriage · What happens: be, see, finish, find, have · To what, where: nothing, garment, more silk · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wedding garment, tailor, marriage), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 garment	det
2	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 garment	compound
3	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nothing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 nothing	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 beautiful	advmod
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nothing	amod
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	13 seen	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seen	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seen	aux
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 seen	advmod
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 seen	aux:pass
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 nothing	acl:relcl
14	before	before	ADV	_	13 seen	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 finished	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 finished	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 finished	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 finished	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 finished	aux:pass
20	almost	almost	ADV	_	21 finished	advmod
21	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 found	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tailor	det
23	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 found	nsubj
24	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 nothing	parataxis
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 had	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 found	ccomp
28	no	no	ADV	_	30 silk	advmod
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 silk	amod
30	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 nothing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the wedding garment	nothing			tree rules
2	see	past · perfect · passive		garment	ever	before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	finish	past · passive		garment		almost property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
4	find	past	the tailor				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	have	past	marriage	more silk			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silk=Patient

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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