The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 16
So the King consented, and the wedding was celebrated with great splendour.
Who acts: King · What happens: consent, celebrate · To what, where: wedding
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 consented | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 consented | nsubj |
| 4 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 celebrated | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 celebrated | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wedding | det |
| 8 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 10 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 consented | parataxis |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 splendour | case |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 splendour | amod |
| 13 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 celebrated | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | the King | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | celebrate | past · passive | the wedding | with great splendour | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 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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