The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 87
The Prince consented to this, and led his beautiful bride home, where the wedding was held with great pomp and magnificence.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: consent, lead, hold · To what, where: beautiful bride, wedding
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 consented | nsubj |
| 3 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 consented | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 led | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 led | cc |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 consented | parataxis |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bride | nmod:poss |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bride | amod |
| 11 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obj |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 led | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 held | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 held | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wedding | det |
| 16 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 held | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 held | aux:pass |
| 18 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 led | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 pomp | case |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pomp | amod |
| 21 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 held | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 magnificence | cc |
| 23 | magnificence | magnificence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pomp | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | the Prince | to this | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | Prince's beautiful bride | home property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | past · passive | the wedding | with great pomp and magnificence | 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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