Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the City., sentence 9

One day a big wagon drawn by eight horses, all with bells on their heads, drove into the little town.

What happens: draw, drive · To what, where: big wagon, little town

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the City.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drove	obl:unmarked
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wagon	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wagon	amod
5	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	appos
6	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wagon	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 horses	case
8	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 horses	nummod
9	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drawn	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 all	punct
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 horses	appos
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 bells	case
13	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 all	nmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 heads	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heads	nmod:poss
16	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bells	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
18	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	into	into	ADP	_	22 town	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 town	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 town	amod
22	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drove	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	participle		a big wagon not said here				by eight horses	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drive	past				the little town	day		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into town=Trajectory

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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