The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 42
And so the year passed away like the other two, and the wedding-day was fixed, and all the people were prepared to feast and make merry.
Who acts: year · What happens: pass away, fix, prepare, feast, make · To what, where: wedding day, people, merry
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (year), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 passed | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 passed | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 year | det |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 passed | advmod |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 two | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 two | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 two | amod |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 passed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fixed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fixed | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 14 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 day | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 wedding | punct |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fixed | aux:pass |
| 18 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 passed | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 prepared | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 prepared | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 people | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 people | det |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 prepared | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 prepared | aux:pass |
| 25 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 passed | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 feast | mark |
| 27 | feast | feast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 prepared | xcomp |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 make | cc |
| 29 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 feast | conj |
| 30 | merry | merry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 make | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | past | the year | like the other two; away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fix | past · passive | the wedding day | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | prepare | past · passive | all people | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | feast not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | make | infinitive | merry | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset merry=Product |
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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