The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 53
So he made up a caravan on twenty splendid horses caparisoned in gold embroidered cloths, with fine morocco saddles and silver bridles and stirrups, also twenty camels of the best breed, which had the speed of race-horses, and could swing along at a trot all day without getting tired; and, lastly, twenty elephants, with magnificent silver howdahs and coverings of silk embroidered with pearls.
Who acts: prince, twenty splendid horses, best breed · What happens: make up, caparison, embroider, have, swing, get · To what, where: caravan, embroidered cloths, gold, speed, trot, magnificent silver howdahs
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, twenty splendid horses, best breed), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 made | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 caravan | det |
| 6 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 horses | case |
| 8 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 horses | nummod |
| 9 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 horses | amod |
| 10 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| 11 | caparisoned | caparison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 horses | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 gold | case |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caparisoned | obl |
| 14 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 cloths | amod |
| 15 | cloths | cloth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 caparisoned | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saddles | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 saddles | case |
| 18 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 saddles | amod |
| 19 | morocco | morocco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saddles | compound |
| 20 | saddles | saddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bridles | cc |
| 22 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bridles | compound |
| 23 | bridles | bridle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 saddles | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stirrups | cc |
| 25 | stirrups | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 saddles | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 camels | punct |
| 27 | also | also | ADV | _ | 28 twenty | advmod |
| 28 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 camels | nummod |
| 29 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 saddles | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 breed | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 breed | det |
| 32 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 breed | amod |
| 33 | breed | breed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 camels | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 had | punct |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 had | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 breed | acl:relcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 speed | det |
| 38 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 had | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 horses | case |
| 40 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 horses | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 race | punct |
| 42 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 speed | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 swing | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 swing | cc |
| 45 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 swing | aux |
| 46 | swing | swing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | conj |
| 47 | along | along | ADV | _ | 46 swing | advmod |
| 48 | at | at | ADP | _ | 50 trot | case |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 trot | det |
| 50 | trot | trot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 swing | obl |
| 51 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 52 day | det |
| 52 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 swing | obl:unmarked |
| 53 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 54 getting | mark |
| 54 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 46 swing | advcl |
| 55 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 getting | xcomp |
| 56 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 59 lastly | punct |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 lastly | cc |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 lastly | punct |
| 59 | lastly | lastly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | conj |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 elephants | punct |
| 61 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 62 elephants | nummod |
| 62 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 59 lastly | obl |
| 63 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 67 howdahs | punct |
| 64 | with | with | ADP | _ | 67 howdahs | case |
| 65 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 67 howdahs | amod |
| 66 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 howdahs | compound |
| 67 | howdahs | howdah | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| 68 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 69 coverings | cc |
| 69 | coverings | covering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 67 howdahs | conj |
| 70 | of | of | ADP | _ | 71 silk | case |
| 71 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 howdahs | nmod |
| 72 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 67 howdahs | acl |
| 73 | with | with | ADP | _ | 74 pearls | case |
| 74 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 72 embroidered | obl |
| 75 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past | prince | a caravan | on twenty splendid horses; with fine morocco saddles and silver bridles and stirrups and twenty camels of the best breed; with magnificent silver howdahs of silk and coverings | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme caravan=Pivot | |||
| 2 | caparison | participle | twenty splendid horses not said here | embroidered cloths | gold | tree rules | |||
| 3 | embroider | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | have | past | the best breed | the speed of race horses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speed=Patient | ||||
| 5 | swing | could | prince not said here | a trot | day | along property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at trot=Trajectory | ||
| 6 | get | gerund | prince not said here | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | embroider | participle | magnificent silver howdahs of silk and coverings not said here | with pearls | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=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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