Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 123
When the wedding was over, the king's son brought home the bride, and when the time came a son was born.
Who acts: wedding, son, time · What happens: be, bring, come, bear · To what, where: bride, son
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: who acts (wedding, son, time), 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 | 5 over | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wedding | det |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 over | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 over | cop |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 brought | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 over | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | nsubj |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 brought | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bride | det |
| 14 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 brought | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 son | det |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 born | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 born | aux:pass |
| 24 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 came | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the wedding | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | the king's son | the bride | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bride=Destination | |||
| 3 | come | past | the time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bear | past · passive | a son | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «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: «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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