The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 21
In a few days the carriage commanded by the princess was ready.
Who acts: carriage · What happens: command, be · To what, where: carriage · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carriage), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ready | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 carriage | det |
| 6 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ready | nsubj |
| 7 | commanded | command | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 carriage | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 princess | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 commanded | obl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ready | cop |
| 12 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | participle | the carriage not said here | by the princess | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent by princess=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the carriage | day | ready property | tree rules |
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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