The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 11
It was drawn by twelve snow-white horses, harnessed four abreast; their trappings were flame-colored velvet, embroidered with diamonds.
Who acts: twelve white horses, trappings · What happens: draw, harness, color, be, embroider · To what, where: chariot, four, flame colored velvet
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twelve white horses, trappings), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drawn | aux:pass |
| 3 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 horses | case |
| 5 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 horses | nummod |
| 6 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 white | obl |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 snow | punct |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 horses | amod |
| 9 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drawn | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 harnessed | punct |
| 11 | harnessed | harness | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 horses | acl |
| 12 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 harnessed | obj |
| 13 | abreast | abreast | ADV | _ | 11 harnessed | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 velvet | punct |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 trappings | nmod:poss |
| 16 | trappings | trapping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 velvet | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 velvet | cop |
| 18 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 velvet | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 flame | punct |
| 20 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 velvet | amod |
| 21 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drawn | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 embroidered | punct |
| 23 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 velvet | acl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 diamonds | case |
| 25 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 embroidered | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past · passive | twelve white horses | chariot | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | harness | participle | twelve white horses not said here | four | abreast property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent four=Destination | |||
| 3 | color | participle | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | horses's trappings | flame colored velvet | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | embroider | participle | flame colored velvet not said here | with diamonds | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with diamond=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 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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