The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 34
And the king believed her words, and the marriage took place without the veil being once lifted.
Who acts: king, marriage, woman · What happens: believe, take, lift, word · To what, where: words, place, veil
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 (king, marriage, woman), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 believed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 believed | nsubj |
| 4 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 words | nmod:poss |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 believed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 marriage | det |
| 10 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 believed | conj |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 18 lifted | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 veil | det |
| 15 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 lifted | aux:pass |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 lifted | advmod |
| 18 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 took | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | the king | woman's words | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the marriage | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lift | gerund · passive | the veil | once property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | word | woman | nom word «communication 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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