The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 18
The following morning the marriage ceremony took place, and for three days and three nights there was nothing but feasting over the whole kingdom.
Who acts: marriage ceremony, nothing · What happens: follow, take, be · To what, where: place
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marriage ceremony, nothing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ceremony | det |
| 5 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ceremony | compound |
| 6 | ceremony | ceremony | 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 | _ | 18 was | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 was | cc |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 days | case |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 days | nummod |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 was | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 nights | cc |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 nights | nummod |
| 16 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 days | conj |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 was | nsubj |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 feasting | cc |
| 21 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nothing | conj |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 kingdom | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 kingdom | det |
| 24 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 kingdom | amod |
| 25 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nothing | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | take | past | the marriage ceremony | place | morning | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 3 | be | past | nothing | there | day | vn exist-47.1 «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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