The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 155
She and the Irishman recognised each other, and were married, and had a great wedding that lasted for a year and a day.
Who acts: beautiful woman, great wedding · What happens: recognise, marry, have, last · To what, where: other, great wedding
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful woman, great wedding), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:3252): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 recognised | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Irishman | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Irishman | det |
| 4 | Irishman | Irishman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 She | conj |
| 5 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 other | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 recognised | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 married | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 married | cc |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 married | aux:pass |
| 11 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 recognised | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 recognised | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wedding | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wedding | amod |
| 17 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 lasted | nsubj |
| 19 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wedding | acl:relcl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 year | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 year | det |
| 22 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lasted | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 day | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 year | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | past | beautiful woman = woman | each other | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | marry | past · passive | beautiful woman = woman not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | have | past | beautiful woman = woman not said here | a great wedding | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Patient | ||||
| 4 | last | past | a great wedding | year | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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