The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 56

One had a car of ebony, drawn by white pigeons, another was lying back in her ivory chariot, driving ten black crows, while the rest had chosen rare woods or many-coloured sea-shells, with scarlet and blue macaws, long-tailed peacocks, or green love-birds for horses.

Who acts: One, another · What happens: have, draw, lie back, drive, choose, tail · To what, where: car, white pigeons, ivory chariot, ten black crows, rest

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, another), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 car	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 ebony	case
6	ebony	ebony	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 car	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 drawn	punct
8	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 car	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 pigeons	case
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pigeons	amod
11	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 drawn	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lying	punct
13	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	15 lying	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lying	aux
15	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 pigeons	acl
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 lying	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 chariot	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 chariot	nmod:poss
19	ivory	ivory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 chariot	amod
20	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lying	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 driving	punct
22	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 lying	conj
23	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 crows	nummod
24	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 crows	amod
25	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 driving	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 chosen	punct
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 chosen	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rest	det
29	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 chosen	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 chosen	aux
31	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	parataxis
32	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 woods	amod
33	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 chosen	obj
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 shells	cc
35	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 shells	amod
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 coloured	punct
37	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 shells	amod
38	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 shells	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 sea	punct
40	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 woods	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 scarlet	punct
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 scarlet	case
43	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 chosen	parataxis
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 macaws	cc
45	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 macaws	amod
46	macaws	macaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 scarlet	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 peacocks	punct
48	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 tailed	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 long	punct
50	tailed	tail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 peacocks	amod
51	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 macaws	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 birds	punct
53	or	or	CCONJ	_	57 birds	cc
54	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 birds	amod
55	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 birds	compound
56	-	-	PUNCT	_	55 love	punct
57	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 peacocks	conj
58	for	for	ADP	_	59 horses	case
59	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 birds	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	One	a car of ebony			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Patient
2	draw	participle		a car of ebony not said here		by white pigeons	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lie back	past · progressive	another	white pigeons not said here	queen's ivory chariot		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pigeon=Theme
4	drive	gerund	another not said here	ten black crows			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=Theme
5	choose	past · perfect · passive		the rest			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary wood=Theme
6	tail	participle					vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: 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: «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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