The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 146

The wedding festivities lasted for eight days, and the dogs sat at table and made eyes at everyone.

Who acts: wedding festivities, dogs · What happens: last, sit, make · To what, where: table, eyes, everyone

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding festivities, dogs), 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	3 festivities	det
2	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 festivities	compound
3	festivities	festivity	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lasted	nsubj
4	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 days	case
6	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 days	nummod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lasted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sat	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dogs	det
11	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lasted	parataxis
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 table	case
14	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 made	cc
16	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	conj
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 made	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 everyone	case
19	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 made	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	last	past	the wedding festivities			day	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past	the dogs		table		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
3	make	past	the dogs not said here	eyes	everyone		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eye=Product

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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