The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 56

The bridegroom looked, and on one side of the road he saw a large ball of thread of all colours--of all the colours, that is, of the dresses that were tied on to the back of the cart.

Who acts: bridegroom, colours · What happens: look, see, be, tie · To what, where: large ball, one side, colours, dresses

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (bridegroom, colours), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bridegroom	det
2	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 side	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 side	nummod
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 road	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 road	det
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 side	nmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ball	det
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ball	amod
16	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 thread	case
18	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ball	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 colours	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 colours	det
21	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 thread	nmod
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 colours	punct
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 colours	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 colours	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 colours	det
26	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 saw	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 is	punct
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 is	nsubj
29	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 colours	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dresses	punct
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 dresses	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 dresses	det
33	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 saw	obl
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 tied	nsubj:pass
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 tied	aux:pass
36	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 dresses	acl:relcl
37	on	on	ADP	_	40 back	case
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 back	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 back	det
40	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tied	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 cart	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 cart	det
43	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 back	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	the bridegroom				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past	bridegroom	a large ball of thread of all colours	one side of the road	of the dresses	tree rules
3	does	present	all colours	all colours not said here			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot colour=Theme
4	tie	past · passive		the dresses		on the back of the cart	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient on back=Co-Patient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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