The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 97
The King and his bride drove to church, and Little Snow was in the carriage too.
Who acts: King, Little Snow · What happens: drive, be · To what, where: church, carriage
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Little Snow), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 drove | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bride | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bride | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 King | conj |
| 6 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 church | case |
| 8 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drove | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 carriage | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 carriage | cc |
| 11 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Snow | amod |
| 12 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 carriage | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 carriage | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 carriage | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 carriage | det |
| 16 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drove | obl |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 carriage | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | the King and King's bride | church | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to church=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Little Snow | the carriage | 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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