The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 144
The King had sent a hundred carriages to meet them, drawn by every kind of strange animal.
What happens: send, meet, draw · To what, where: King
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hundred | det |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 carriages | nummod |
| 7 | carriages | carriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 meet | mark |
| 9 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 meet | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drawn | punct |
| 12 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sent | advcl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 kind | case |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 kind | det |
| 15 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drawn | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 animal | case |
| 17 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 animal | amod |
| 18 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kind | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · perfect · passive | the King | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination carriage=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | King | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | draw | participle | by every kind of strange animal | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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