The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 13
A few days later a heavily laden waggon drove up, and out of it came so many boxes and bales that Dame Ilse was lost in wonder at the wealth of her future son-in-law.
Who acts: laden waggon · What happens: lade, drive up, come, lose · To what, where: many boxes, waggon, wonder
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (laden waggon), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 later | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 drove | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 waggon | det |
| 6 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 7 laden | advmod |
| 7 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 waggon | amod |
| 8 | waggon | waggon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drove | nsubj |
| 9 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 drove | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | obl |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 drove | conj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 many | advmod |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 boxes | amod |
| 19 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 came | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bales | cc |
| 21 | bales | bale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 boxes | conj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | Ilse | Ilse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Dame | flat |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 lost | aux:pass |
| 26 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 boxes | acl:relcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 wonder | case |
| 28 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lost | obl |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 wealth | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 wealth | det |
| 31 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lost | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 son | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 son | nmod:poss |
| 34 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 son | amod |
| 35 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 wealth | nmod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 law | punct |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 law | case |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 in | punct |
| 39 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 son | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lade | participle | heavily property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drive up | past | a laden waggon | late property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past | a laden waggon not said here | many boxes and bales | waggon | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme | |||
| 4 | lose | past · passive | many boxes and bales | wonder | at the wealth of dame's future son in law | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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