The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 57

These carriages were only used on occasions of state, for when they went to war flying dragons, fiery serpents, lions or leopards, took the place of the beautiful birds.

Who acts: carriages · What happens: use, go, fly, take, occasion · To what, where: carriages, occasions, war, place, state

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 (carriages), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 carriages	det
2	carriages	carriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 used	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 used	aux:pass
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 used	advmod
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 occasions	case
7	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 used	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 state	case
9	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 occasions	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 went	mark
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 went	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 used	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 war	case
16	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
17	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 dragons	amod
18	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 war	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 serpents	punct
20	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 serpents	amod
21	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 dragons	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lions	punct
23	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 serpents	conj
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 leopards	cc
25	leopards	leopard	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lions	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 took	punct
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 place	det
29	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 birds	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 birds	det
32	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 birds	amod
33	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 place	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	use	past · passive		this carriages	occasions of state	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	go	past	carriages = carriage		war and flying dragons	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location
3	fly	gerund				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	past	carriages = carriage not said here	the place of the beautiful birds		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
5	occasion			state		nom occasion «event transitive»: of=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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