The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 12

She told him that she would drive him there in her chariot, which was drawn by two peacocks.

Who acts: Fairy, two peacocks · What happens: tell, drive, draw · To what, where: Jack, chariot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, two 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 drive	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 drive	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 drive	aux
7	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 drive	obj
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 drive	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 chariot	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 chariot	nmod:poss
12	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drive	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drawn	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 drawn	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 drawn	aux:pass
16	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 chariot	acl:relcl
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 peacocks	case
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 peacocks	nummod
19	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 drawn	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Fairy		Jack		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	drive	would	Fairy	Jack		Fairy's chariot; there	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in chariot=Destination
3	draw	past · passive	two peacocks	Fairy's chariot			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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 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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