Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 30
Then the noble lady drove by towards the baron's mansion with her three daughters, in a gilded carriage drawn by six horses.
Who acts: noble lady · What happens: drive, gild, draw · To what, where: gilded carriage
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noble lady), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 drove | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 3 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lady | amod |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drove | nsubj |
| 5 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 mansion | case |
| 7 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 mansion | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 baron | det |
| 9 | baron | baron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mansion | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 baron | case |
| 11 | mansion | mansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drove | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 daughters | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 daughters | nummod |
| 15 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 mansion | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 carriage | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 carriage | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 carriage | det |
| 19 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 carriage | amod |
| 20 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mansion | appos |
| 21 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 carriage | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 horses | case |
| 23 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 horses | nummod |
| 24 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 drawn | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | the noble lady | then | by the baron's mansion with mirth's three daughters | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | gild | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | draw | participle | a gilded carriage not said here | by six horses | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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