More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 28

The Abbot came with a goodly retinue, with his fifty knights-at-arms in velvet cloaks and gold chains.

Who acts: Abbot · What happens: come

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abbot), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Abbot	det
2	Abbot	Abbot	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 retinue	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 retinue	det
6	goodly	goodly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 retinue	amod
7	retinue	retinue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knights	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 knights	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 knights	nmod:poss
11	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 knights	nummod
12	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 arms	punct
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 arms	case
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 at	punct
16	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 knights	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 cloaks	case
18	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cloaks	compound
19	cloaks	cloak	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 arms	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 chains	cc
21	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 chains	compound
22	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cloaks	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Abbot					with a goodly retinue; with Abbot's fifty knights at arms in velvet cloaks and gold chains	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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