The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 96

‘The wife is ready, so call the priest,’ answered he, and when the ceremony was over a cannon was fired and music was played, and within the palace there was feasting.

Who acts: wife, ceremony · What happens: be, call, answer, fire, play, feast · To what, where: priest, sultan, cannon, music · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, ceremony), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 ready	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ready	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ready	cop
5	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 answered	parataxis
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 call	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 call	advmod
8	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 ready	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 priest	det
10	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 call	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ready	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 ready	punct
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 answered	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fired	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fired	cc
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 fired	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ceremony	det
19	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cannon	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 cannon	cop
21	over	over	ADP	_	23 cannon	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 cannon	det
23	cannon	cannon	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fired	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fired	aux:pass
25	fired	fire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 answered	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 played	cc
27	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 played	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 played	aux:pass
29	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 fired	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 feasting	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 was	cc
32	within	within	ADP	_	34 palace	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 palace	det
34	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 was	obl
35	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	36 was	expl
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 feasting	aux
37	feasting	feast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 answered	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the wife				ready property	tree rules
2	call	infinitive		the priest				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent priest=Recipient
3	answer speech: assert	past			sultan			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
4	is	past	the ceremony			a cannon		tree rules
5	fire	past · passive		a cannon				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	play	past · passive		music				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	feast	past · progressive						vn dine-39.5 «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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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