The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 86
This time they came themselves to fetch me, in a chariot of pearl drawn by sea-horses, followed by the dragon, who was led with chains of diamonds.
Who acts: dwarfs · What happens: come, fetch, draw, follow, lead · To what, where: dwarfs, me, chariot, pearl, sea horses, dragon
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 (dwarfs), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 came | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fetch | mark |
| 7 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | advcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 fetch | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 chariot | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 chariot | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 chariot | det |
| 12 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fetch | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 pearl | case |
| 14 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chariot | nmod |
| 15 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 pearl | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 horses | case |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 horses | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 sea | punct |
| 19 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 drawn | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 followed | punct |
| 21 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 horses | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 dragon | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 dragon | det |
| 24 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 followed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 led | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 led | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 led | aux:pass |
| 28 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 dragon | acl:relcl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 chains | case |
| 30 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 led | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 diamonds | case |
| 32 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 chains | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | dwarfs = dwarf | dwarfs = dwarf | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme | |||
| 2 | fetch | to-infinitive | dwarfs = dwarf not said here | me | a chariot of pearl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 3 | draw | participle | pearl not said here | by sea horses | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | follow | participle | sea horses not said here | by the dragon | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by dragon=Location | ||||
| 5 | lead | past · passive | the dragon | with chains of diamonds | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=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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