English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 5
But in a few weeks the king, attended by the nobility and gentry, brought his deformed bride to the palace, where the marriage rites were performed.
Who acts: king · What happens: attend, bring, deform, perform · To what, where: king, deformed bride, palace, marriage rites
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 brought | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 weeks | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 weeks | det |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 weeks | amod |
| 5 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 brought | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 attended | punct |
| 9 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 king | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 nobility | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nobility | det |
| 12 | nobility | nobility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 attended | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gentry | cc |
| 14 | gentry | gentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nobility | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 brought | punct |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bride | nmod:poss |
| 18 | deformed | deform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 bride | amod |
| 19 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 performed | punct |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 performed | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rites | det |
| 26 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rites | compound |
| 27 | rites | rite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 performed | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 performed | aux:pass |
| 29 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 palace | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | participle | the king not said here | by the nobility and gentry | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by nobility=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | the king | king's deformed bride | the palace | week | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bride=Theme to palace=Destination | ||
| 3 | deform | participle | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | perform | past · passive | the marriage rites | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=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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