The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 40
At the gates of the city the carriage was stopped by a guard of honour sent by the king as an escort to his son's bride.
Who acts: guard · What happens: stop, send · To what, where: carriage, gates, honour, bride
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 (guard), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 gates | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gates | det |
| 3 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stopped | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gates | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 carriage | det |
| 8 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stopped | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stopped | aux:pass |
| 10 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 guard | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 guard | det |
| 13 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stopped | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 honour | case |
| 15 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 guard | nmod |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 honour | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 king | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 escort | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 escort | det |
| 22 | escort | escort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 bride | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 son | nmod:poss |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bride | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 son | case |
| 27 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past · passive | a guard of honour | the carriage | the gates of the city | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality subject=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | send | participle | honour not said here | king's son's bride | by the king; as a escort | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to bride=Destination |
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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