The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 56
Then came two footmen in livery and carried the fir-tree to a large and beautiful room.
What happens: come, carry · To what, where: two footmen, livery, fir tree, large room
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 footmen | nummod |
| 4 | footmen | footman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 livery | case |
| 6 | livery | livery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 carried | cc |
| 8 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 10 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 fir | punct |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 room | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 room | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 room | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 beautiful | cc |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 large | conj |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | two footmen | livery | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location footman=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry | past | the fir tree | a large room | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme to room=Destination |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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