English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 88
Well, the wedding-day came, and they were married.
Who acts: wedding day · What happens: come, marry · To what, where: twas
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 (wedding day), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 came | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 4 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 wedding | punct |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 married | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 married | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 married | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 married | aux:pass |
| 12 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 came | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the wedding day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | marry | past · passive | twas = twa | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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