The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 40
So the false slave was put to death, that none might follow in his footsteps, and the wedding feast was held, and the hearts of all rejoiced that the true bridegroom had come at last.
Who acts: none, hearts, true bridegroom · What happens: put, follow, hold, rejoice, come · To what, where: false slave, footsteps, wedding feast, last
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none, hearts, true bridegroom), 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 | _ | 6 put | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 slave | det |
| 3 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 slave | amod |
| 4 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | aux:pass |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 death | case |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 follow | punct |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 none | det |
| 11 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 13 follow | nsubj |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 follow | aux |
| 13 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 put | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 footsteps | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 footsteps | nmod:poss |
| 16 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 follow | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 held | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 held | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 feast | det |
| 20 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feast | compound |
| 21 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 held | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 held | aux:pass |
| 23 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 follow | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 rejoiced | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 rejoiced | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hearts | det |
| 27 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 all | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 hearts | nmod |
| 30 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 held | advcl |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 come | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 bridegroom | det |
| 33 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 bridegroom | amod |
| 34 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 come | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 come | aux |
| 36 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 rejoiced | advcl |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 last | case |
| 38 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 come | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | the false slave | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 2 | follow | might | none | slave's footsteps | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in footstep=Location | ||||
| 3 | hold | past · passive | the wedding feast | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rejoice | participle | the hearts of all | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | come | past · perfect | the true bridegroom | last | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=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 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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