The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 108
And a dreary little procession set out for the king's palace, the greyhound and the cat bringing up the rear.
Who acts: dreary little procession, cat · What happens: set out, bring up · To what, where: rear
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dreary little procession, cat), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 set | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 procession | det |
| 3 | dreary | dreary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 procession | amod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 procession | amod |
| 5 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | nsubj |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 set | compound:prt |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 palace | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 king | case |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 greyhound | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 greyhound | det |
| 15 | greyhound | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 palace | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cat | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cat | det |
| 18 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 palace | conj |
| 19 | bringing | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 cat | acl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 bringing | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rear | det |
| 22 | rear | rear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bringing | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle | a dreary little procession | for the king's palace and the greyhound and the cat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring up | gerund | the cat not said here | the rear | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rear=Patient |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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