The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 98

When the Foals got into the churchyard they turned into men and looked like the sons of a king, and their clothes were so magnificent that they shone with splendour, and they went into the church and received bread and wine from the priest, who was standing before the altar, and Cinderlad went in too.

Who acts: Foals, clothes, priest, Cinderlad · What happens: get, turn, look, be, shine, go · To what, where: churchyard, church, bread, priest, altar

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Foals, clothes, priest, Cinderlad), 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	4 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Foals	det
3	Foals	Foal	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	advcl
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 churchyard	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 churchyard	det
7	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 turned	nsubj
9	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 men	case
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 turned	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 looked	cc
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	conj
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 sons	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sons	det
16	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 looked	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 king	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 king	det
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sons	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 magnificent	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 magnificent	cc
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 clothes	nmod:poss
23	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	26 magnificent	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 magnificent	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 magnificent	advmod
26	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 turned	parataxis
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 shone	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 shone	nsubj
29	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 magnificent	advcl
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 splendour	case
31	splendour	splendour	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shone	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 went	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 went	cc
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 went	nsubj
35	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	parataxis
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 church	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 church	det
38	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 went	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 received	cc
40	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 went	conj
41	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 received	obj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 wine	cc
43	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 bread	conj
44	from	from	ADP	_	46 priest	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 priest	det
46	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 received	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 standing	punct
48	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 standing	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 standing	aux
50	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 priest	acl
51	before	before	ADP	_	53 altar	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 altar	det
53	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 standing	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 went	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 went	cc
56	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 went	nsubj
57	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	conj
58	in	in	ADV	_	57 went	advmod
59	too	too	ADV	_	57 went	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	the Foals		the churchyard		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into churchyard=Destination
2	turn	past	foals = foal			into men result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into man=Result
3	look	past	foals = foal not said here			like the sons of a king	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	past	foals's clothes			magnificent property	tree rules
5	shine	past	foals = foal			with splendour	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with splendour=Theme
6	go	past	foals = foal		the church		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into church=Initial_Location
7	receive	past	foals = foal not said here	bread and wine	the priest		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bread=Theme from priest=Source
8	stand	past · progressive	the priest		the altar		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before altar=Location
9	go in	past	Cinderlad				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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