Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 43
So there was no more fighting that day, and Tom was invited to dine with the royal family.
Who acts: Tom · What happens: not be, invite, dine · To what, where: more fighting, Tom
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom), 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 | _ | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fighting | cop |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 fighting | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 fighting | amod |
| 6 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fighting | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 invited | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 invited | cc |
| 11 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 invited | aux:pass |
| 13 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fighting | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 dine | mark |
| 15 | dine | dine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 invited | xcomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 family | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 family | det |
| 18 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 family | amod |
| 19 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dine | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fighting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | more fighting | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | invite | past · passive | Tom | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | dine not said to happen | to-infinitive | Tom not said here | with the royal family | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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