English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 89
And after they were married all the company sat down to the dinner.
What happens: marry, sit down · 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: 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 | _ | 9 sat | cc |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 married | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 married | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 married | aux:pass |
| 5 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sat | advcl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 company | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 company | det |
| 8 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 married | obj |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 sat | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 dinner | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dinner | det |
| 13 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | twas = twa | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sit down | past | to the dinner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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