The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 99

As soon as the swans which drew the Fairy’s chariot had alighted under a porch, which was paved with diamonds and had arches of rubies, they were greeted on all sides by thousands of beautiful beings, who came to meet them joyfully, singing these words:

Who acts: swans, thousands, beautiful beings · What happens: draw, alight, pave, have, greet, come · To what, where: chariot, porch, arches, sides, words

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 (swans, thousands, beautiful beings), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 swans	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 swans	det
5	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 soon	obl
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 drew	nsubj
7	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swans	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Fairy	det
9	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chariot	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 Fairy	case
11	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 alighted	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 alighted	aux
13	alighted	alight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 drew	ccomp
14	under	under	ADP	_	16 porch	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 porch	det
16	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 alighted	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 paved	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 paved	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 paved	aux:pass
20	paved	pave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 porch	acl:relcl
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 diamonds	case
22	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 paved	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 had	cc
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 alighted	conj
25	arches	arch	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 had	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 rubies	case
27	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 arches	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 greeted	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 greeted	nsubj:pass
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 greeted	aux:pass
31	greeted	greet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 soon	advcl
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 sides	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 sides	det
34	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 greeted	obl
35	by	by	ADP	_	36 thousands	case
36	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 greeted	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 beings	case
38	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 beings	amod
39	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 thousands	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 came	punct
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 came	nsubj
42	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 beings	acl:relcl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 meet	mark
44	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 came	xcomp
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 meet	obj
46	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	44 meet	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 singing	punct
48	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 meet	advcl
49	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	50 words	det
50	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 singing	obj
51	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 soon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	the swans				tree rules
2	alight	past · perfect · passive		the Fairy's chariot	a porch		tree rules
3	pave	past · passive		a porch		with diamonds	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with diamond=Theme
4	have	past		arches of rubies			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arch=Patient
5	greet speech: greet	past · passive	thousands of beautiful beings	arches = arch	all sides		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
6	come	past	beautiful beings				tree rules
7	meet	to-infinitive	beautiful beings not said here	arches = arch		joyfully property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
8	sing speech: express	gerund	beautiful beings not said here	this words			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=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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