The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 12
A hundred chariots followed, each drawn by eight horses, and filled with officers in splendid uniforms, and a thousand guards surrounded the procession.
Who acts: hundred chariots, each, thousand guards · What happens: follow, draw, fill, surround · To what, where: splendid uniforms, procession
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 (hundred chariots, each, thousand guards), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hundred | det |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 chariots | nummod |
| 3 | chariots | chariot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 followed | nsubj |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 drawn | punct |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 drawn | nsubj |
| 7 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 followed | parataxis |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 horses | case |
| 9 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 horses | nummod |
| 10 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 drawn | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 filled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 filled | cc |
| 13 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 drawn | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 officers | case |
| 15 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 filled | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 uniforms | case |
| 17 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 uniforms | amod |
| 18 | uniforms | uniform | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 filled | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 guards | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 guards | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 thousand | det |
| 22 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 guards | nummod |
| 23 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 followed | parataxis |
| 24 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 guards | acl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 procession | det |
| 26 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 surrounded | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | hundred chariots | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | draw | participle | each | by eight horses | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fill | participle | each not said here | splendid uniforms | with officers | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with officer=Instrument | |||
| 4 | surround | participle | thousand guards not said here | the procession | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme procession=Co-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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