English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 101
A day for the wedding was soon fixed; and they were attended to church by the Lord Mayor, the court of aldermen, the sheriffs, and a great number of the richest merchants in London, whom they afterwards treated with a very rich feast.
Who acts: Lord Mayor · What happens: fix, attend, treat · To what, where: great number, clothes, richest merchants
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord Mayor), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fixed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 wedding | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wedding | det |
| 5 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fixed | aux:pass |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 fixed | advmod |
| 8 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 attended | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 attended | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 attended | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 attended | aux:pass |
| 13 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fixed | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 church | case |
| 15 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 attended | obl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 Mayor | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Mayor | det |
| 18 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Mayor | compound |
| 19 | Mayor | Mayor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 attended | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 court | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 court | det |
| 22 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Mayor | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 aldermen | case |
| 24 | aldermen | alderman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 court | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sheriffs | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sheriffs | det |
| 27 | sheriffs | sheriff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 aldermen | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 number | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 number | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 number | det |
| 31 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 number | amod |
| 32 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fixed | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 merchants | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 merchants | det |
| 35 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 merchants | amod |
| 36 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 number | nmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 London | case |
| 38 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 merchants | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 treated | punct |
| 40 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 43 treated | advmod |
| 43 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 merchants | acl |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 feast | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 feast | det |
| 46 | very | very | ADV | _ | 47 rich | advmod |
| 47 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 feast | amod |
| 48 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 treated | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past · passive | a great number of the richest merchants in London | day | soon property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||
| 2 | attend | past · passive | the Lord Mayor | clothes | to church | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Goal | |||
| 3 | treat | participle · passive | the richest merchants in London | with a rich feast; afterwards property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with feast=Theme |
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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