The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 170
In a few days a magnificent wedding was celebrated, at which the rejoicings lasted four whole weeks, for all the neighbouring kings had met together to thank the man who had freed the world from their common enemy.
Who acts: rejoicings, neighbouring kings · What happens: celebrate, last, meet, thank, free · To what, where: magnificent wedding, man, common enemy
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rejoicings, neighbouring kings), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 celebrated | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wedding | det |
| 6 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wedding | amod |
| 7 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 9 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lasted | punct |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 lasted | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rejoicings | det |
| 14 | rejoicings | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lasted | nsubj |
| 15 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 celebrated | parataxis |
| 16 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 weeks | nummod |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 weeks | amod |
| 18 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lasted | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 met | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 met | mark |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 kings | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 kings | det |
| 23 | neighbouring | neighbouring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 kings | compound |
| 24 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 met | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 met | aux |
| 26 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 lasted | conj |
| 27 | together | together | ADV | _ | 26 met | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 thank | mark |
| 29 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 met | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 man | det |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 thank | obj |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 freed | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 freed | aux |
| 34 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 man | acl:relcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 world | det |
| 36 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 freed | obj |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 enemy | case |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 39 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 enemy | amod |
| 40 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 thank | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 celebrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | past · passive | a magnificent wedding | day | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | last | past | the rejoicings | week | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | past · perfect | all neighbouring kings | together property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank | to-infinitive | all neighbouring kings not said here | the man | kings's common enemy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 5 | free | past · perfect · passive | the man | 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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