The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 136
Next day it was announced that the task would be performed in the great hall of the palace, and everyone was invited to come and witness it.
Who acts: everyone · What happens: announce, perform, invite, come · To what, where: matter, task, great hall, everyone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everyone), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 announced | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 announced | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 announced | aux:pass |
| 5 | announced | announce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 performed | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 task | det |
| 8 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 performed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 performed | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 performed | aux:pass |
| 11 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 announced | ccomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hall | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hall | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hall | amod |
| 15 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 performed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 palace | det |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hall | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 invited | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 invited | cc |
| 21 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 23 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 invited | aux:pass |
| 23 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 announced | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 come | mark |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 invited | xcomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 witness | cc |
| 27 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 come | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 come | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past · passive | matter | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | perform | would · passive | the task | the great hall of the palace | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | invite | past · passive | everyone | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | everyone not said here | matter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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 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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