English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 80
It was to be a very grand wedding, and every one was asked far and near.
Who acts: home · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: grand wedding, one
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (home), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wedding | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wedding | cop |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 wedding | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wedding | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wedding | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 grand | advmod |
| 7 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wedding | amod |
| 8 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 asked | aux:pass |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 wedding | acl:relcl |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 asked | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 near | cc |
| 17 | near | near | ADV | _ | 15 far | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wedding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | home | a grand wedding | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past · passive | every one | far property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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