The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 61

Fifteen hundred of the Emperor’s largest horses, each about four inches and a half high, were then employed to draw me toward the capital.

What happens: employ, draw · To what, where: Fifteen hundred, me

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 employed	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 horses	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Emperor	det
5	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 horses	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Emperor	case
7	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 horses	amod
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 employed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 inches	punct
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 inches	det
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 four	advmod
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 inches	nummod
13	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 horses	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 half	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 half	det
16	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 inches	conj
17	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 inches	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 horses	punct
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 employed	aux:pass
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 employed	advmod
21	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
22	to	to	PART	_	23 draw	mark
23	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 employed	xcomp
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 draw	obj
25	toward	toward	ADP	_	27 capital	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 capital	det
27	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 draw	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 employed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	employ	past · passive		Fifteen hundred			then	of the Emperor's largest horses and each four inches and a half	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	draw	to-infinitive		me				toward the capital	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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