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The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 147

Their harness was all of crimson velvet with gold buckles, and behind the carriage walked sixty beautiful ladies chosen by the King to wait upon Rosette and amuse her.

Who acts: harness, carriage · What happens: be, walk, choose, wait, amuse · To what, where: sixty beautiful ladies, Rosette

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: who acts (harness, carriage), 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

nmod:possnsubjcopdetcaseamodcasecompoundnmodpunctcccasedetnsubjparataxisnummodamodobjaclcasedetobl:agentmarkadvclcaseoblccconjobjpunctrootTheirPRONharnessNOUNwasAUXallDETofADPcrimsonADJvelvetNOUNwithADPgoldNOUNbucklesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJbehindADPtheDETcarriageNOUNwalkedVERBsixtyNUMbeautifulADJladiesNOUNchosenVERBbyADPtheDETKingPROPNtoPARTwaitVERBuponADPRosetteNOUNandCCONJamuseVERBherPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 harnessnmod:poss
2harnessharnessNOUNNumber=Sing7 velvetnsubj
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 velvetcop
4allallDETPronType=Tot7 velvetdet
5ofofADP_7 velvetcase
6crimsoncrimsonADJDegree=Pos7 velvetamod
7velvetvelvetNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
8withwithADP_10 bucklescase
9goldgoldNOUNNumber=Sing10 bucklescompound
10bucklesbuckleNOUNNumber=Plur7 velvetnmod
11,,PUNCT_16 walkedpunct
12andandCCONJ_16 walkedcc
13behindbehindADP_15 carriagecase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 carriagedet
15carriagecarriageNOUNNumber=Sing16 walkednsubj
16walkedwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 velvetparataxis
17sixtysixtyNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card19 ladiesnummod
18beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos19 ladiesamod
19ladiesladyNOUNNumber=Plur16 walkedobj
20chosenchooseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass19 ladiesacl
21bybyADP_23 Kingcase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 Kingdet
23KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing20 chosenobl:agent
24totoPART_25 waitmark
25waitwaitVERBVerbForm=Inf16 walkedadvcl
26uponuponADP_27 Rosettecase
27RosetterosetteNOUNNumber=Sing25 waitobl
28andandCCONJ_29 amusecc
29amuseamuseVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 waitconj
30hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 amuseobj
31..PUNCT_7 velvetpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastmonkeys's harnessof all crimson velvet; with gold bucklestree rules
2walkpastthe carriagesixty beautiful ladiesvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location lady=Theme
3chooseparticiplesixty beautiful ladies not said herevn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4waitto-infinitivethe carriage not said hereRosettevn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon rosette=Location
5amusepresentthe carriage not said hereRosettevn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

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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