The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 81
So, making him mount her chariot, to which she had harnessed swans instead of the bats which generally drew it, away she flew with him.
Who acts: Desert, Fairy · What happens: make, mount, harness, draw, fly · To what, where: Desert, chariot, Fairy, bats
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (Desert, Fairy), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 making | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 making | punct |
| 3 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 making | obj |
| 5 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 making | xcomp |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 chariot | nmod:poss |
| 7 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mount | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 harnessed | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 harnessed | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 harnessed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 harnessed | aux |
| 13 | harnessed | harness | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 making | conj |
| 14 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 harnessed | obj |
| 15 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 18 bats | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 instead | fixed |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bats | det |
| 18 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 harnessed | obl |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 drew | obj |
| 20 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 21 drew | advmod |
| 21 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 bats | acl:relcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 drew | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 flew | punct |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 flew | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 flew | nsubj |
| 26 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 harnessed | parataxis |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 flew | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 making | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | Desert | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mount | infinitive | Desert not said here | Fairy's chariot | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Patient | ||||
| 3 | harness | past · perfect · passive | Fairy | instead the bats | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient swan=Result | ||||
| 4 | draw | past | the bats | generally property | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary it=Result | ||||
| 5 | fly | past | Fairy | with Desert; away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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