The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 69
Towards the middle of the next day he saw a long procession of horses and camels coming towards him.
Who acts: Prince, camels, horses · What happens: see, come, proceed · To what, where: long procession
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, camels, horses), 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 | Towards | towards | ADP | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 procession | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 procession | amod |
| 12 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 horses | case |
| 14 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 procession | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 camels | cc |
| 16 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 horses | conj |
| 17 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 camels | acl |
| 18 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 coming | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Prince | a long procession of horses and camels | towards the middle of the next day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer procession=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come | gerund | camels not said here | towards Prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | proceed | horses and camels | nom procession «event intransitive»: of=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: «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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