The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 131
So he took heart of grace, and made Martin a Duke, and gave his daughter a rich dowry, and prepared the grandest wedding-feast that had ever been seen, so that to this day the old people in the country still talk of it.
Who acts: King, old people · What happens: take, make, give, prepare, see, talk · To what, where: heart, Duke, Martin, rich dowry, daughter, grandest wedding feast
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, old people), 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 | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 grace | case |
| 6 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Duke | det |
| 12 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | iobj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dowry | det |
| 19 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dowry | amod |
| 20 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 prepared | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 prepared | cc |
| 23 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 feast | det |
| 25 | grandest | grand | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 feast | amod |
| 26 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 feast | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 wedding | punct |
| 28 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 prepared | obj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 seen | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 seen | aux |
| 31 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 33 seen | advmod |
| 32 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 seen | aux:pass |
| 33 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 feast | acl:relcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 day | punct |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 day | advmod |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 day | mark |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 day | case |
| 38 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 day | det |
| 39 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | parataxis |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 people | det |
| 41 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 people | amod |
| 42 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 talk | nsubj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 country | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 country | det |
| 45 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 people | nmod |
| 46 | still | still | ADV | _ | 47 talk | advmod |
| 47 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 day | parataxis |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 it | case |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 talk | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | King | heart of grace | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | King not said here | a Duke | Martin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset martin=Beneficiary duke=Product | |||
| 3 | give | past | King not said here | a rich dowry | King's daughter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient dowry=Theme | |||
| 4 | prepare | past | the grandest wedding feast | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient | |||||
| 5 | see | past · perfect · passive | the grandest wedding feast | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | talk | the old people in the country | still | of talk | tree rules |
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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