The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 35
In honour of the approaching wedding a feast lasting many nights was to be given in the capital.
Who acts: feast · What happens: approach, last, give, honour · To what, where: feast, honour, approaching wedding
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feast), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 honour | case |
| 2 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wedding | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wedding | det |
| 5 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 wedding | amod |
| 6 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 honour | nmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 feast | det |
| 8 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | lasting | last | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 feast | acl |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nights | amod |
| 11 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lasting | obj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux:pass |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 given | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 given | aux:pass |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 capital | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 capital | det |
| 18 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | last | gerund | a feast not said here | night | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past · passive | a feast | honour of the approaching wedding | in the capital | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | honour | the approaching wedding | nom honour «state transitive»: of=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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