The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 14
Each prince and princess rode in a splendid carriage; the horses were decked with plumes of feathers, and glittered with gold.
Who acts: prince · What happens: ride, deck, glitter · To what, where: splendid carriage, horses
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 princess | cc |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prince | conj |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 carriage | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 carriage | det |
| 8 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 carriage | amod |
| 9 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 decked | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horses | det |
| 12 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 decked | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 decked | aux:pass |
| 14 | decked | deck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 rode | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 plumes | case |
| 16 | plumes | plume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 decked | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 feathers | case |
| 18 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 plumes | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 glittered | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 glittered | cc |
| 21 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 decked | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 gold | case |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 glittered | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | each prince and princess | a splendid carriage | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | deck | past · passive | the horses | with plumes of feathers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with plume=Theme | ||||
| 3 | glitter | participle | with gold | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gold=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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