The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 95
The young man married the Porcelain Maiden, and had a splendid wedding-feast.
Who acts: young man · What happens: marry, have · To what, where: Porcelain Maiden, splendid wedding feast
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man), 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 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 married | nsubj |
| 4 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Maiden | det |
| 6 | Porcelain | Porcelain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Maiden | compound |
| 7 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 married | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 feast | det |
| 12 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 feast | amod |
| 13 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feast | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 wedding | punct |
| 15 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | the young man | the Porcelain Maiden | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the young man not said here | a splendid wedding feast | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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