Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 116
Handsome equipages, with coachmen in gold braid and footmen in silken hose, drove up.
Who acts: Handsome equipages · What happens: drive up
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Handsome equipages), 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 | Handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 equipages | amod |
| 2 | equipages | equipage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 drove | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 coachmen | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 coachmen | case |
| 5 | coachmen | coachman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 equipages | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 braid | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 braid | compound |
| 8 | braid | braid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coachmen | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 footmen | cc |
| 10 | footmen | footman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 braid | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hose | case |
| 12 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hose | amod |
| 13 | hose | hose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 footmen | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 equipages | punct |
| 15 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 drove | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive up | past | Handsome equipages and coachmen in gold braid and footmen in silken hose | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent 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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