English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 37
When she gave the letter to his brother, he gave orders for the wedding to be prepared at once, and they were married that very day.
Who acts: girl, brother · What happens: give, be, marry · To what, where: letter, brother, orders
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, brother), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gave | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 letter | det |
| 5 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 brother | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gave | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 wedding | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wedding | det |
| 15 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 prepared | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 prepared | cop |
| 18 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wedding | acl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 once | case |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 prepared | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 married | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 married | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 married | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 married | aux:pass |
| 25 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 gave | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 day | mark |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 day | advmod |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 married | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | girl | the letter | brother's brother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to brother=Recipient | |||
| 2 | give | past | brother | orders | for the wedding | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent order=Theme for wedding=Asset | |||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | brother not said here | prepared property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | marry | past · passive | orders = order | day | 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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