The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 40
The wedding was arranged, and the night before the whole town was illuminated.
What happens: arrange, illuminate · To what, where: wedding
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 2 wedding | det |
| 2 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arranged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arranged | aux:pass |
| 4 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 illuminated | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 illuminated | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 night | det |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 illuminated | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 town | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 town | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 town | amod |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 illuminated | obl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 illuminated | aux:pass |
| 14 | illuminated | illuminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 arranged | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arranged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrange | past · passive | the wedding | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | illuminate | past · passive | before the whole town; night | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP» |
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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