The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 60

So they were married, and in the middle of all the festivities and rejoicings the bride’s father came home and was not a little surprised at finding his daughter celebrating her wedding.

Who acts: daughter, girl · What happens: marry, come, not be, find, celebrate, wed · To what, where: lads, middle, daughter, wedding

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, girl), 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 married	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 married	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 married	aux:pass
4	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 festivities	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 festivities	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 festivities	det
13	festivities	festivity	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 middle	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 rejoicings	cc
15	rejoicings	rejoicing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 festivities	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bride	det
17	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 father	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 bride	case
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 festivities	nmod
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 married	parataxis
21	home	home	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 surprised	cc
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 surprised	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 surprised	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 little	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 surprised	obl:unmarked
27	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 came	conj
28	at	at	SCONJ	_	29 finding	mark
29	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 surprised	advcl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 daughter	nmod:poss
31	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 finding	obj
32	celebrating	celebrate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 daughter	acl
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 wedding	nmod:poss
34	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 celebrating	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	marry	past · passive		lads = lad			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	come	past			the middle of all festivities the bride's father and rejoicings	home property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location
3	not is	past				a little obl:unmarked; surprised property	tree rules
4	find	gerund		brother's daughter			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Topic
5	celebrate	gerund	brother's daughter not said here	girl's wedding			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Theme
6	wed		girl				nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=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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