Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 173
Then, indeed, there was a wedding, and it _was_ a wedding!
Who acts: wedding · What happens: be · To what, where: wedding
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 was | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 was | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 indeed | punct |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wedding | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wedding | det |
| 8 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wedding | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wedding | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wedding | nsubj |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 it | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wedding | cop |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 wedding | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wedding | det |
| 16 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 wedding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | wedding | a wedding | tree rules |
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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