Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 175
They were married, and the dancing began, that was a dance!
Who acts: dancing, that · What happens: marry, begin, be · To what, where: gentlemen, dance
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 (dancing, that), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 married | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 married | aux:pass |
| 3 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dancing | det |
| 7 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 married | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dance | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 dance | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dance | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dance | det |
| 13 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | gentlemen = gentleman | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | the dancing | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | that | a dance | 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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