The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 12

After passing through a few wide streets, well paved, and adorned with avenues of fine trees, they drove into the courtyard of a grand palace, which was full of spaniels who were evidently soldiers.

Who acts: spaniels, grand palace · What happens: pass, pave, adorn, drive, be · To what, where: few wide streets, courtyard, soldiers

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spaniels, grand palace), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 passing	mark
2	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 drove	advcl
3	through	through	ADP	_	7 streets	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 streets	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 streets	amod
6	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 streets	amod
7	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 passing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 paved	punct
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 paved	advmod
10	paved	pave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 streets	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 adorned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 adorned	cc
13	adorned	adorn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 paved	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 avenues	case
15	avenues	avenue	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 adorned	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 trees	case
17	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 trees	amod
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 avenues	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 passing	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 drove	nsubj
21	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 courtyard	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 courtyard	det
24	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drove	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 palace	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 palace	det
27	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 palace	amod
28	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 courtyard	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 full	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 full	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 full	cop
32	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 palace	amod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 spaniels	case
34	spaniels	spaniel	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 full	obl
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 soldiers	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 soldiers	cop
37	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	38 soldiers	advmod
38	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 spaniels	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	gerund	spaniels = spaniel not said here		a few wide streets		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through street=Location
2	pave	participle		a few wide streets not said here		well property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	adorn	participle				with avenues of fine trees	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with avenue=Theme
4	drive	past	spaniels = spaniel		the courtyard of a grand palace		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into courtyard=Trajectory
5	is	past	a grand palace			of spaniels; full property	tree rules
6	is a	past	spaniels	soldiers		evidently property	tree rules

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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