The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 82
They soon met the King, who was driving about in a beautiful little golden carriage which glittered with diamonds, and was drawn at full speed by twelve peacocks.
Who acts: Cockchafers, King, beautiful little golden carriage, twelve peacocks · What happens: meet, drive, glitter, draw · To what, where: King, beautiful little golden carriage, full speed
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 (Cockchafers, King, beautiful little golden carriage, twelve peacocks), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 met | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 met | advmod |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 driving | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 driving | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 driving | aux |
| 9 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 King | acl |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 driving | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 carriage | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 carriage | det |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 carriage | amod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 carriage | amod |
| 15 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 carriage | amod |
| 16 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 driving | obl |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 glittered | nsubj |
| 18 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 carriage | acl:relcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 diamonds | case |
| 20 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 glittered | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 drawn | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 drawn | cc |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 drawn | aux:pass |
| 24 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 met | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 speed | case |
| 26 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 speed | amod |
| 27 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drawn | obl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 peacocks | case |
| 29 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 peacocks | nummod |
| 30 | peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 drawn | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Cockchafers = cockchafer | the King | soon property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | drive | past · progressive | the King | a beautiful little golden carriage | about property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | glitter | past | a beautiful little golden carriage | with diamonds | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with diamond=Theme | ||||
| 4 | draw | past · passive | twelve peacocks | full speed | 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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