The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 94
‘Everything is being got ready for the feast, and all the invited guests are flocking to the palace from all sides.’
Who acts: invited guests · What happens: get, invite, flock · To what, where: Everything
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (invited guests), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 2 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 got | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux:pass |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 got | aux:pass |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 got | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 feast | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 feast | det |
| 9 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ready | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flocking | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 flocking | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 guests | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 guests | det |
| 14 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 guests | amod |
| 15 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flocking | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 flocking | aux |
| 17 | flocking | flock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 got | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 palace | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 palace | det |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flocking | obl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 sides | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 sides | det |
| 23 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 palace | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · passive | Everything | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | invite | participle | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | flock | present · progressive | all invited guests | to the palace from all sides | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: 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 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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