Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 121
The marriage-day was fixed, and the invitations were sent out.
What happens: fix, send out · To what, where: marriage day, invitations
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 2 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 marriage | punct |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fixed | aux:pass |
| 6 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sent | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 invitations | det |
| 10 | invitations | invitation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sent | aux:pass |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fixed | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 sent | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past · passive | the marriage day | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | send out | past · passive | the invitations | vn confine-92-1 «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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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