The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 44

Some walked and some rode, some came in beautiful golden coaches; but all had on splendid dresses of red or blue, while wreaths of flowers rested on their hair.

Who acts: Some · What happens: walk, come, have, rest · To what, where: beautiful golden coaches, splendid dresses, flowers, hair

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 rode	cc
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 rode	det
5	rode	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 coaches	case
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 coaches	amod
11	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 coaches	amod
12	coaches	coach	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
15	all	all	ADV	_	16 had	advmod
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 dresses	case
18	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dresses	amod
19	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 red	case
21	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dresses	nmod
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 blue	cc
23	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 red	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wreaths	punct
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 wreaths	case
26	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 flowers	case
28	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 wreaths	nmod
29	rested	rest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 flowers	acl
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 hair	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hair	nmod:poss
32	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rested	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	Some				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	some		beautiful golden coaches		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in coach=Location
3	have	past	Some not said here		splendid dresses of red	while wreaths of flowers; all property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	rest	participle		flowers not said here	flowers's hair		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hair=Location

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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