The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 68

Her chariot was of mother-of-pearl, drawn by six dun-colored griffins just brought from the other side of the world, and she was attended by a number of guards in splendid uniforms, who were all at least eight feet high and had come from far and near to ride in the Princess’s train.

Who acts: chariot, number · What happens: be, draw, color, bring, attend, come · To what, where: pearl, other side, Miranda, eight feet, train

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (chariot, number), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 chariot	nmod:poss
2	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pearl	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pearl	cop
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 pearl	case
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pearl	nsubj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 pearl	punct
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 pearl	case
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 of	punct
9	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drawn	punct
11	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 pearl	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	17 griffins	case
13	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 griffins	nummod
14	dun	dun	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 colored	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 dun	punct
16	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 griffins	amod
17	griffins	griffin	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 drawn	obl
18	just	just	ADV	_	19 brought	advmod
19	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 drawn	advcl
20	from	from	ADP	_	23 side	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 side	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 side	amod
23	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 brought	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 world	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 world	det
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 side	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 attended	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 attended	cc
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 attended	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 attended	aux:pass
31	attended	attend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 pearl	parataxis
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 number	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 number	det
34	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 attended	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 guards	case
36	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 number	nmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 uniforms	case
38	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 uniforms	amod
39	uniforms	uniform	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 guards	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 feet	punct
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 feet	nsubj
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 feet	cop
43	all	all	ADV	_	46 eight	advmod
44	at	at	ADP	_	45 least	case
45	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	46 eight	nmod
46	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 feet	nummod
47	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 high	obl:unmarked
48	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 uniforms	amod
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 come	cc
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 come	aux
51	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 attended	conj
52	from	from	ADP	_	53 far	case
53	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	51 come	obl
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 near	cc
55	near	near	ADV	_	53 far	conj
56	to	to	PART	_	57 ride	mark
57	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 come	advcl
58	in	in	ADP	_	62 train	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 Princess	det
60	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 train	nmod:poss
61	’s	's	PART	_	60 Princess	case
62	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 ride	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 pearl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Miranda's chariot			of pearl	tree rules
2	draw	participle		pearl not said here		by six colored griffins	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	color	participle					vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	bring	past			the other side of the world		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from side=Initial_Location
5	attend	past · passive	a number of guards in splendid uniforms	Miranda			vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Goal
6	is a	past		eight feet			tree rules
7	come	past · perfect	a number of guards in splendid uniforms not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from far=Initial_Location
8	ride	to-infinitive	a number of guards in splendid uniforms not said here		the Princess's train		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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