The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 73

When the horse which the Duchess was to ride appeared beside Graciosa’s, it looked no better than an old cart horse, and as to their trappings, there was simply no comparison between them, as the Princess’s saddle and bridle were one glittering mass of diamonds.

Who acts: palace, comparison · What happens: ride, appear, look, glitter, be · To what, where: Graciosa, one glittering mass

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, comparison), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 When	nsubj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 Duchess	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Duchess	det
6	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 horse	appos
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Duchess	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 ride	mark
9	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 was	advcl
10	appeared	appear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ride	xcomp
11	beside	beside	ADP	_	12 Graciosa	case
12	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 appeared	obl
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 Graciosa	case
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looked	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 looked	nsubj
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 mass	parataxis
17	no	no	ADV	_	18 better	advmod
18	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 looked	xcomp
19	than	than	ADP	_	23 horse	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 horse	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 horse	amod
22	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 horse	compound
23	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 better	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 was	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 was	cc
26	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	29 trappings	case
27	to	to	ADP	_	26 as	fixed
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 trappings	nmod:poss
29	trappings	trapping	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 was	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 trappings	punct
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 was	expl
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 mass	cop
33	simply	simply	ADV	_	35 comparison	advmod
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 comparison	det
35	comparison	comparison	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 mass	nsubj
36	between	between	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 comparison	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 saddle	punct
39	as	as	ADP	_	43 saddle	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Princess	det
41	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 saddle	nmod:poss
42	’s	's	PART	_	41 Princess	case
43	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 mass	nsubj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 bridle	cc
45	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 saddle	conj
46	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 mass	cop
47	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 mass	nummod
48	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 mass	amod
49	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 appeared	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 diamonds	case
51	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 mass	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 When	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride	to-infinitive					tree rules
2	appear	participle			Graciosa		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside graciosa=Location
3	look	past	palace			good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	glitter	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past	no comparison between service	one glittering mass		of diamonds	tree rules

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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