The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 27
The Princess joyfully mounted with him into a little sledge, drawn by two stags, which bounded off and drew them swiftly to the wonderful palace, where the Queen received her with the greatest kindness, and a splendid banquet was served at once.
Who acts: two stags, Queen · What happens: mount, draw, bound off, receive, serve · To what, where: Princess, little sledge, stags, wonderful palace, splendid banquet
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two stags, Queen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mounted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 4 mounted | advmod |
| 4 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mounted | obl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 sledge | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sledge | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sledge | amod |
| 10 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mounted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drawn | punct |
| 12 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sledge | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 stags | case |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 stags | nummod |
| 15 | stags | stag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 drawn | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bounded | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 bounded | nsubj |
| 18 | bounded | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stags | acl:relcl |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 bounded | compound:prt |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 drew | cc |
| 21 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 bounded | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 drew | obj |
| 23 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 21 drew | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 palace | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 palace | det |
| 26 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 palace | amod |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drew | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 received | punct |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 received | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Queen | det |
| 31 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 received | nsubj |
| 32 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 palace | acl:relcl |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 received | obj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 kindness | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 kindness | det |
| 36 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 37 kindness | amod |
| 37 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 received | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 served | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 served | cc |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 banquet | det |
| 41 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 banquet | amod |
| 42 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 served | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 served | aux:pass |
| 44 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 mounted | conj |
| 45 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 once | case |
| 46 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 44 served | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | participle · passive | the Princess | a little sledge | with palace; joyfully property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with he=Instrument | |||
| 2 | draw | participle | a little sledge not said here | by two stags | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bound off | past | two stags | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | draw | past | two stags not said here | stags = stag | the wonderful palace | swiftly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to palace=Destination | ||
| 5 | receive | past | the Queen | Princess | with the greatest kindness | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 6 | serve | past · passive | a splendid banquet | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
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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