The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 90

The Sheep with the golden horns ordered that his chariot should be fetched, and a moment after appeared six goats, harnessed to a pumpkin, which was so big that two people could quite well sit in it, and was all lined with cushions of velvet and down.

Who acts: Sheep, moment, pumpkin, two people · What happens: order, fetch, appear, harness, be, sit · To what, where: chariot, six goats

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sheep, moment, pumpkin, two people), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sheep	det
2	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ordered	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 horns	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horns	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horns	amod
6	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Sheep	nmod
7	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 fetched	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 chariot	nmod:poss
10	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fetched	nsubj:pass
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 fetched	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 fetched	aux:pass
13	fetched	fetch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ordered	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 appeared	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 appeared	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 moment	det
17	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 appeared	nsubj
18	after	after	ADV	_	19 appeared	advmod
19	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ordered	conj
20	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 goats	nummod
21	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 appeared	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 harnessed	punct
23	harnessed	harness	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 goats	acl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 pumpkin	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 pumpkin	det
26	pumpkin	pumpkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 harnessed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 big	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 big	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 big	cop
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 big	advmod
31	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pumpkin	amod
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 sit	mark
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 people	nummod
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 sit	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 sit	aux
36	quite	quite	ADV	_	38 sit	advmod
37	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 sit	advmod
38	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 big	advcl
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 sit	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 lined	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 lined	cc
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 lined	aux:pass
44	all	all	ADV	_	45 lined	advmod
45	lined	line	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ordered	parataxis
46	with	with	ADP	_	47 cushions	case
47	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 lined	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 velvet	case
49	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 cushions	nmod
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 down	cc
51	down	down	ADV	_	45 lined	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	order	past	the Sheep with the golden horns				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fetch not said to happen	should · passive		father's chariot			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	appear	past	a moment	six goats		after property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location goat=Theme
4	harness	participle		six goats not said here		to a pumpkin	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to pumpkin=Co-Patient
5	is	past	a pumpkin			big property	tree rules
6	sit	could	two people		chariot	well property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location
7	line	past · passive				with cushions of velvet; all property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with cushion=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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