The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 43

Then the ceremonies began, and the bridal pair sat together, and the cup of wine was brought them, out of which they had to drink.

Who acts: ceremonies, bridal pair · What happens: begin, sit, bring, have, drink · To what, where: cup

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ceremonies, bridal pair), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ceremonies	det
3	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pair	det
8	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pair	amod
9	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	nsubj
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
11	together	together	ADV	_	10 sat	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 brought	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 brought	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cup	det
15	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 brought	nsubj:pass
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 wine	case
17	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cup	nmod
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 brought	aux:pass
19	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 began	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 brought	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
22	out	out	ADP	_	24 which	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 had	obl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 drink	mark
28	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 had	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the ceremonies		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	sit	past	the bridal pair			together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bring	past · passive		the cup of wine			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme they=Destination
4	have	past	ceremonies = ceremony				tree rules
5	drink	to-infinitive	ceremonies = ceremony not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «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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