The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 16
Preparations were at once made for the wedding, which was held soon after with great pomp and magnificence.
What happens: make, hold · To what, where: Preparations, wedding
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. 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 | Preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 made | obl |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 wedding | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wedding | det |
| 8 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 held | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 held | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 held | aux:pass |
| 12 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 wedding | acl:relcl |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 held | advmod |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 pomp | case |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 pomp | case |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pomp | amod |
| 17 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 held | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 magnificence | cc |
| 19 | magnificence | magnificence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pomp | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | Preparations | for the wedding | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for wedding=Asset | ||||
| 2 | hold | past · passive | the wedding | after great pomp and magnificence | soon property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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