The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 34
The Fairy came away immediately, and she arrived, about an hour after, in a fiery chariot drawn by dragons.
Who acts: Fairy, Princess · What happens: come away, arrive, draw · To what, where: fiery chariot
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, Princess), 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 Fairy | det |
| 2 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 arrived | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 arrived | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 arrived | nsubj |
| 9 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hour | punct |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 hour | advmod |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hour | det |
| 13 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arrived | obj |
| 14 | after | after | ADV | _ | 13 hour | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 chariot | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 chariot | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 chariot | det |
| 18 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 chariot | amod |
| 19 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arrived | conj |
| 20 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 chariot | acl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 dragons | case |
| 22 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 drawn | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come away | past | the Fairy | away, immediately property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | Princess | hour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | draw | participle | a fiery chariot not said here | by dragons | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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