The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 153

They gave her a muff as well as some shoes; she was warmly dressed, and when she was ready, there in front of the door stood a coach of pure gold, with a coachman, footmen and postilions with gold crowns on.

Who acts: people, Gerda · What happens: give, dress, be, stand · To what, where: muff, Gerda, coach, front

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Gerda), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 muff	det
5	muff	muff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	2 gave	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 as	fixed
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 shoes	case
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 shoes	det
10	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 dressed	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 dressed	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dressed	aux:pass
14	warmly	warmly	ADV	_	15 dressed	advmod
15	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gave	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ready	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ready	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 ready	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ready	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ready	cop
21	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dressed	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 stood	punct
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 stood	expl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 front	case
25	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stood	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 door	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 door	det
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 front	nmod
29	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 coach	det
31	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stood	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 gold	case
33	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 gold	amod
34	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 coach	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 coachman	punct
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 coachman	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 coachman	det
38	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stood	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 footmen	punct
40	footmen	footman	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 coachman	appos
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 postilions	cc
42	postilions	postilion	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 footmen	conj
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 crowns	case
44	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 crowns	compound
45	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 stood	obl
46	on	on	ADV	_	29 stood	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	people	a muff	Gerda		as some shoes	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient muff=Theme
2	dress	past · passive		Gerda			warmly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is	past	Gerda				ready property	tree rules
4	stand	past	people not said here	a coach of pure gold		front of the door; there	with a coachman; with gold crowns	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coach=Theme in front=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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