Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 270
So the king's son married Auburn Mary and the wedding lasted long and all were happy.
Who acts: son, wedding, all · What happens: marry, last, be · To what, where: Auburn Mary
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 (son, wedding, all), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 married | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 married | nsubj |
| 6 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Auburn | Auburn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mary | compound |
| 8 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 married | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lasted | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wedding | det |
| 11 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lasted | nsubj |
| 12 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 married | conj |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 lasted | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 happy | cc |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 happy | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 happy | cop |
| 17 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lasted | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | the king's son | Auburn Mary | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mary=Patient | ||||
| 2 | last | past | the wedding | long property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | all | happy property | 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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