The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 26
And so they drove into the King’s feast all the outcasts, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Who acts: steeds · What happens: drive, maim · To what, where: feast, halt
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steeds), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 drove | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 drove | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drove | nsubj |
| 4 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 feast | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 feast | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 King | case |
| 9 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drove | obl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 outcasts | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 outcasts | det |
| 12 | outcasts | outcast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drove | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 maimed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 maimed | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 maimed | det |
| 16 | maimed | maim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 drove | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 halt | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 halt | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 halt | det |
| 20 | halt | halt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 maimed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 blind | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 blind | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 blind | det |
| 24 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 maimed | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | steeds = steed | the King's feast | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into feast=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | maim | participle | steeds = steed not said here | the halt | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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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