The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 119

While they were wondering how they should reach his father’s court, they saw a splendid coach driven by six gaily caparisoned horses coming along the bank.

Who acts: maidens, six gaily caparisoned horses · What happens: wonder, reach, see, drive, caparison, come · To what, where: court, splendid coach, bank · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens, six gaily caparisoned horses), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 wondering	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wondering	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wondering	aux
4	wondering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 saw	advcl
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 reach	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reach	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 reach	aux
8	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wondering	ccomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 court	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 father	case
12	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reach	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wondering	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 coach	det
17	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 coach	amod
18	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	obj
19	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 coach	acl
20	by	by	ADP	_	24 horses	case
21	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 horses	nummod
22	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 horses	amod
23	caparisoned	caparison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 horses	amod
24	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 driven	obl
25	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 horses	acl
26	along	along	ADP	_	28 bank	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bank	det
28	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 coming	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past · progressive	maidens = maiden				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	reach	should	maidens = maiden	prince's father's court			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent court=Theme
3	see	past	maidens = maiden	a splendid coach			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coach=Stimulus
4	drive	participle		a splendid coach not said here		by six gaily caparisoned horses	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	caparison	participle					tree rules
6	come	gerund	six gaily caparisoned horses not said here		the bank		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along bank=Initial_Location

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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