The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 71

The procession consisted of the Queen, the Princess, five dozen other princesses her cousins, and ten dozen who came from the neighbouring kingdoms; and as they proceeded at a stately pace the sky began to grow dark, then suddenly the thunder growled, and rain and hail fell in torrents.

Who acts: procession, ten dozen, kingdoms, sky, thunder, rain · What happens: consist, come, proceed, begin, grow, growl · To what, where: ten dozen, neighbouring kingdoms, stately pace, torrents

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (procession, ten dozen, kingdoms, sky), 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 procession	det
2	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 consisted	nsubj
3	consisted	consist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Queen	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Queen	det
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 consisted	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Princess	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princess	det
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Queen	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 princesses	punct
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 dozen	compound
12	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 princesses	nummod
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 princesses	amod
14	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 Princess	nmod
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 cousins	nmod:poss
16	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 princesses	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dozen	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dozen	cc
19	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 dozen	nummod
20	dozen	dozen	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 consisted	obl
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 dozen	acl:relcl
23	from	from	ADP	_	26 kingdoms	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 kingdoms	det
25	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 kingdoms	amod
26	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 came	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 proceeded	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 proceeded	cc
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 proceeded	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 proceeded	nsubj
31	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 consisted	parataxis
32	at	at	ADP	_	35 pace	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 pace	det
34	stately	stately	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 pace	amod
35	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 proceeded	obl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sky	det
37	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 began	nsubj
38	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 pace	acl:relcl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 grow	mark
40	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 began	xcomp
41	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 grow	xcomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 growled	punct
43	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 growled	advmod
44	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	47 growled	advmod
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 thunder	det
46	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 growled	nsubj
47	growled	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 proceeded	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 fell	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 fell	cc
50	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 fell	nsubj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 hail	cc
52	hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 rain	conj
53	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 proceeded	conj
54	in	in	ADP	_	55 torrents	case
55	torrents	torrent	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 fell	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 consisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consist	past	the procession	ten dozen			of the Queen and the Princess dozen other princesses and Princess's cousins	tree rules
2	come	past	ten dozen		the neighbouring kingdoms			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from kingdom=Initial_Location
3	proceed	past	kingdoms = kingdom				at a stately pace	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past	the sky	a stately pace not said here				tree rules
5	grow	to-infinitive	the sky not said here				dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	growl	past	the thunder			then	suddenly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	fall	past	rain and hail		torrents			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in torrent=Location

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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