The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 101

When they were in the middle of their games there drove into the square a large sledge, all white, and in it sat a figure dressed in a rough white fur pelisse with a white fur cap on.

Who acts: flakes · What happens: be, drive, sit, dress · To what, where: middle, large sledge, square, figure, rough white fur pelisse

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flakes), 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	6 middle	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 middle	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 middle	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 middle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 middle	det
6	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drove	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 games	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 games	nmod:poss
9	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 middle	nmod
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 drove	advmod
11	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 square	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 square	det
14	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drove	obl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 sledge	det
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sledge	amod
17	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drove	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 white	punct
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 white	det
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sledge	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sat	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sat	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sat	obl
25	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 drove	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 figure	det
27	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sat	obj
28	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 figure	acl
29	in	in	ADP	_	34 pelisse	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 pelisse	det
31	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 pelisse	amod
32	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 pelisse	amod
33	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pelisse	compound
34	pelisse	pelisse	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dressed	obl
35	with	with	ADP	_	39 cap	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 cap	det
37	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 cap	amod
38	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cap	compound
39	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pelisse	nmod
40	on	on	ADV	_	39 cap	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	flakes = flake		the middle	of flakes's games	tree rules
2	drive	past		a large sledge	the square; there		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sledge=Theme into square=Trajectory
3	sit	past		a figure	square		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent figure=Theme in it=Location
4	dress	participle		a figure not said here	a rough white fur pelisse with a white fur cap		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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