English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 12
Now it happened that the very next day the marriage contract of Lady Mary and Mr. Fox was to be signed, and there was a splendid breakfast before that.
Who acts: it, splendid breakfast · What happens: happen, sign, be, contract · To what, where: marriage contract, that, Lady Mary
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, splendid breakfast), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 signed | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 next | advmod |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 day | amod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 signed | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 contract | det |
| 10 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 contract | compound |
| 11 | contract | contract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 signed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Mary | case |
| 13 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Mary | compound |
| 14 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 contract | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Fox | cc |
| 16 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Fox | nmod:desc |
| 17 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Mary | conj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 signed | aux:pass |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 signed | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 signed | aux:pass |
| 21 | signed | sign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 happened | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 was | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 was | cc |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 was | expl |
| 25 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 breakfast | det |
| 27 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 breakfast | amod |
| 28 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 was | nsubj |
| 29 | before | before | ADP | _ | 30 that | case |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 was | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sign | past · passive | the marriage contract of Lady Mary and Fox Mr. | day | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 3 | be | past | a splendid breakfast | that; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before that=Location | ||||
| 4 | contract | Lady Mary and Fox Mr. | nom contract «communication transitive»: of=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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