The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 143
Never before had so grand a wedding been seen, and there was so much food and wine that even the glutton and the thirsty comrade had enough to eat and drink.
Who acts: much food, glutton · What happens: have, see, be, eat, drink · To what, where: wedding, much food · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much food, glutton), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 before | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 grand | advmod |
| 5 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 seen | det |
| 7 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 seen | aux:pass |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 grand | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 was | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 was | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | ccomp |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 food | amod |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wine | cc |
| 18 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 food | conj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 had | obj |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 glutton | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 glutton | det |
| 22 | glutton | glutton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 comrade | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 comrade | det |
| 25 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 comrade | amod |
| 26 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 glutton | conj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 food | acl |
| 28 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 27 had | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 eat | mark |
| 30 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 had | xcomp |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 drink | cc |
| 32 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 eat | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | participle | before, grand property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | participle · passive | wedding | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | past | much food and wine | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | past | the glutton and the thirsty comrade | much food and wine | enough property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | much food and wine not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | drink | infinitive | much food and wine not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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