The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 17
Three months of great happiness followed, when Militza received one day an invitation to visit her mother’s sister.
Who acts: Militza · What happens: follow, receive, visit · To what, where: great happiness, invitation, sister
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: who acts (Militza), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 months | nummod |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 received | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 happiness | case |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 happiness | amod |
| 5 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 months | nmod |
| 6 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 happiness | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 received | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 received | advmod |
| 9 | Militza | Militza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 received | nsubj |
| 10 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 day | nummod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 received | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 invitation | det |
| 14 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 received | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 visit | mark |
| 16 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 invitation | acl |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sister | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 mother | case |
| 20 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 visit | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | participle | great happiness not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | receive | past | Militza | a invitation | day; month | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme | |||
| 3 | visit | to-infinitive | Militza not said here | Militza's mother's sister | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Co-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 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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