The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 31
There were six ambassadors, with a train of about five hundred persons, all very magnificent.
Who acts: six ambassadors · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (six ambassadors), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 ambassadors | nummod |
| 4 | ambassadors | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 train | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 train | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 train | det |
| 8 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 were | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 persons | case |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 hundred | advmod |
| 11 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 hundred | compound |
| 12 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 persons | nummod |
| 13 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 train | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 magnificent | punct |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 magnificent | nsubj |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 magnificent | advmod |
| 17 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 persons | amod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | six ambassadors | there | with a train of hundred persons | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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