The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 9

When they came near the castle where the brothers were to meet, the Princess got into a chair carried by four of the guards; it was hewn out of one splendid crystal, and had silken curtains, which she drew round her that she might not be seen.

Who acts: shoes, brothers, Princess · What happens: come, meet, get, carry, hewn out, have · To what, where: castle, chair, journey, one splendid crystal, silken curtains, Princess

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 (shoes, brothers, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 got	advcl
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 castle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 castle	det
6	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 meet	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brothers	det
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 meet	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 meet	aux
11	to	to	PART	_	12 meet	mark
12	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 castle	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Princess	det
15	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 got	nsubj
16	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 chair	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 chair	det
19	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 got	obl
20	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 chair	acl
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 four	case
22	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 carried	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 guards	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 guards	det
25	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 four	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 hewn	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hewn	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hewn	aux:pass
29	hewn	hewn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 got	conj
30	out	out	ADP	_	34 crystal	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 crystal	case
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 crystal	nummod
33	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 crystal	amod
34	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hewn	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 had	cc
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 got	conj
38	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 curtains	amod
39	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 had	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 drew	punct
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 drew	obj
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 drew	nsubj
43	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 curtains	acl:relcl
44	round	round	ADP	_	45 her	case
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 drew	obl
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 seen	mark
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 seen	nsubj
48	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 seen	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 seen	advmod
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 seen	aux:pass
51	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 drew	advcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	shoes = shoe		the castle		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near castle=Location
2	meet	past	the brothers				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get	past	the Princess		a chair		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into chair=Destination
4	carry	participle		a chair not said here		by four of the guards	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	hewn out	past · passive		journey	one splendid crystal		tree rules
6	have	past	the Princess not said here	silken curtains			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Patient
7	draw	past	Princess	silken curtains		round child	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
8	not see	might · passive		Princess			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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