The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 32

Then the marriage took place, in the presence of Girouette, whom they had the greatest trouble to find, and who was much astonished to discover how much business had been got through in her absence.

Who acts: marriage, sheep, business · What happens: take, have, find, be, discover, get · To what, where: place, presence, much business, absence

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marriage, sheep, business), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 marriage	det
3	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 presence	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 presence	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 presence	det
9	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Girouette	case
11	Girouette	Girouette	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 presence	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 had	obj
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 presence	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 trouble	det
17	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 trouble	amod
18	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 find	mark
20	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 trouble	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 astonished	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 astonished	cc
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 astonished	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 astonished	cop
25	much	much	ADV	_	26 astonished	advmod
26	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 took	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 discover	mark
28	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 astonished	csubj
29	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 much	advmod
30	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 business	amod
31	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 got	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 got	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 got	aux:pass
34	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 discover	ccomp
35	through	through	ADP	_	38 absence	case
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 absence	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 absence	nmod:poss
38	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 got	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the marriage	place	the presence of Girouette	then		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in presence=Location
2	have	past	sheep	the presence of Girouette				tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive	sheep not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	is	past					astonished property	tree rules
5	discover	to-infinitive						vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	get	past · perfect · passive		much business	business's absence			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
7	absent		business					nom absence «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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