The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 183
A few days later the wedding took place, and as Elsa was arranging the veil upon her hair fifty carts arrived laden with beautiful things which the lady of the Tontlawald had sent to Elsa.
Who acts: wedding, Elsa · What happens: take, arrange, lade, send · To what, where: place, veil, fifty carts, lady, Elsa
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding, Elsa), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 later | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 took | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wedding | det |
| 6 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 arranging | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 arranging | cc |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 arranging | mark |
| 12 | Elsa | Elsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 arranging | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 arranging | aux |
| 14 | arranging | arrange | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 took | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 veil | det |
| 16 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arranging | obj |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 hair | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hair | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arranging | obl |
| 20 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 carts | nummod |
| 21 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 laden | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 laden | aux:pass |
| 23 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 arranging | ccomp |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 things | case |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 things | amod |
| 26 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 laden | obl |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 sent | obj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 lady | det |
| 29 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Tontlawald | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Tontlawald | det |
| 32 | Tontlawald | Tontlawald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 lady | nmod |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 sent | aux |
| 34 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 things | acl:relcl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 Elsa | case |
| 36 | Elsa | Elsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 sent | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the wedding | place | late property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 2 | arrange | past · progressive | Elsa | the veil | upon Elsa's hair | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lade | past · passive | fifty carts | with beautiful things | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | send | past · perfect · passive | the lady of the Tontlawald | Elsa | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination which=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 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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