The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 33
A magnificent Court now began to assemble, and at the same time several elegant carriages filled with ladies in magnificent dresses drove up.
Who acts: magnificent Court, several elegant carriages · What happens: begin, assemble, fill, drive up · To what, where: several elegant carriages, magnificent dresses
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magnificent Court, several elegant carriages), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Court | det |
| 2 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Court | amod |
| 3 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | nsubj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 began | advmod |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 assemble | mark |
| 7 | assemble | assemble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 drove | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 drove | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drove | obl |
| 14 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 carriages | amod |
| 15 | elegant | elegant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 carriages | amod |
| 16 | carriages | carriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 drove | nsubj |
| 17 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 carriages | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 ladies | case |
| 19 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 filled | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 dresses | case |
| 21 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dresses | amod |
| 22 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 filled | obl |
| 23 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 began | conj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 drove | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | a magnificent Court | now | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | assemble | to-infinitive | a magnificent Court not said here | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fill | participle | several elegant carriages not said here | magnificent dresses | with ladies | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with lady=Instrument | |||
| 4 | drive up | past | several elegant carriages | time | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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