The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 4

So they were to be married, and great rejoicings were made, and the two looked forward to a long life of happiness together, when the very night before the wedding feast a sudden illness seized the girl, and, without a word to her friends who were weeping round her, she passed silently away.

Who acts: two, sudden illness, friends, illness · What happens: marry, make, look, seize, weep, pass away · To what, where: braves, great rejoicings, girl

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, sudden illness, friends, illness), 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 married	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 married	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 married	aux:pass
4	to	to	PART	_	6 married	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 married	aux:pass
6	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rejoicings	amod
10	rejoicings	rejoicing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 made	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 made	aux:pass
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 married	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 looked	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 two	det
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 looked	nsubj
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 made	conj
18	forward	forward	ADV	_	17 looked	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 life	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 life	det
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 life	amod
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looked	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 happiness	case
24	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 life	nmod
25	together	together	ADV	_	17 looked	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 seized	punct
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 seized	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 night	det
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 night	advmod
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 seized	obl:unmarked
31	before	before	ADP	_	34 feast	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 feast	det
33	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 feast	compound
34	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 night	nmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 illness	det
36	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 illness	amod
37	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 seized	nsubj
38	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 looked	parataxis
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 girl	det
40	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 seized	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 word	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 word	cc
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 word	punct
44	without	without	ADP	_	46 word	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 word	det
46	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 seized	obl
47	to	to	ADP	_	49 friends	case
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 friends	nmod:poss
49	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 word	nmod
50	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 weeping	nsubj
51	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 weeping	aux
52	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 friends	acl:relcl
53	round	round	ADP	_	54 her	case
54	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 weeping	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 passed	punct
56	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 passed	nsubj
57	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 seized	conj
58	silently	silently	ADV	_	57 passed	advmod
59	away	away	ADV	_	57 passed	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past · passive		braves = brave			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	make	past · passive		great rejoicings			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	look	past	the two			to a long life of happiness; forward, together property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to life=Theme
4	seize	past	a sudden illness	the girl	night	without a word to illness's friends	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme
5	weep	past · progressive	illness's friends			round illness	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	pass away	past	illness			away, silently property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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