The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 68
The Fairy had asked all their friends and neighbours to their wedding, which took place at once with great festivities and rejoicings, and they lived to a good old age, always loving one another with all their hearts.
Who acts: Fairy, Sylvain · What happens: ask, take, live, love, wed · To what, where: place, one
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, Sylvain), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fairy | det |
| 2 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | aux |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 friends | det:predet |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friends | nmod:poss |
| 7 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 neighbours | cc |
| 9 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 friends | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 wedding | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | parataxis |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 once | case |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 took | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 festivities | case |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 festivities | amod |
| 21 | festivities | festivity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 took | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rejoicings | cc |
| 23 | rejoicings | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 festivities | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lived | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 lived | cc |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 lived | nsubj |
| 27 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 age | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 age | det |
| 30 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 age | amod |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 age | amod |
| 32 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lived | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 loving | punct |
| 34 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 35 loving | advmod |
| 35 | loving | love | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 lived | advcl |
| 36 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 loving | obj |
| 37 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 one | fixed |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 hearts | case |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 hearts | det:predet |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 41 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 loving | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · perfect | the Fairy | to Sylvain's wedding | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | past | place | with great festivities and rejoicings | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at once=Asset | ||||
| 3 | live | past | Sylvain | to a good old age | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | love | gerund | Sylvain not said here | one | with Sylvain's hearts; always property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | wed | Sylvain | 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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