The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 51

And so she did; and when the cat drove the cart up to the palace gate, lashing the horse furiously with her tail, and the king and queen saw their lost daughter sitting beside her, they declared that no reward could be too great for the person who had brought her out of the giant’s hands.

Who acts: Kisa, cat, king, lost daughter, reward · What happens: do, drive up, lash, see, lose, sit · To what, where: cart, palace gate, horse, lost daughter, person, hands

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kisa, cat, king, lost daughter), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 did	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 declared	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 declared	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 drove	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drove	nsubj
10	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 declared	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cart	det
12	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drove	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	10 drove	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 gate	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gate	det
16	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gate	compound
17	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drove	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lashing	punct
19	lashing	lash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 drove	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 horse	det
21	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lashing	obj
22	furiously	furiously	ADV	_	19 lashing	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 tail	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 tail	nmod:poss
25	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lashing	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 saw	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 saw	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 king	det
29	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 saw	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 queen	cc
31	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 king	conj
32	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lashing	conj
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 daughter	nmod:poss
34	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 daughter	amod
35	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 saw	obj
36	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 daughter	acl
37	beside	beside	ADP	_	38 her	case
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 sitting	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drove	punct
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 declared	nsubj
41	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 great	mark
43	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	44 reward	det
44	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 great	nsubj
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 great	aux
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 great	cop
47	too	too	ADV	_	48 great	advmod
48	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 declared	advcl
49	for	for	ADP	_	51 person	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 person	det
51	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 great	obl
52	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 brought	nsubj:pass
53	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 brought	aux
54	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 person	acl:relcl
55	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 brought	obj
56	out	out	ADP	_	61 hands	case
57	of	of	ADP	_	61 hands	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 giant	det
59	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 hands	nmod:poss
60	’s	's	PART	_	59 giant	case
61	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 brought	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	Kisa					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drive up	past	the cat	the cart		the palace gate		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cart=Theme to gate=Trajectory
3	lash	gerund	the cat not said here		the horse		with Kisa's tail; furiously property	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Destination with tail=Theme
4	see	past	the king and queen	king's lost daughter				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus
5	lose	participle						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sit	gerund	king's lost daughter not said here				beside Kisa	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location
7	declare speech: other	past	king					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
8	is	could	no reward				for the person; great property	tree rules
9	bring	past · perfect · passive		the person		the giant's hands		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination she=Theme

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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