The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 8

In this carriage he continued his journey very comfortably, passing many similar equipages upon the road, and being always most courteously saluted by the spaniels who occupied them.

Who acts: repast, spaniels · What happens: continue, pass, salute, occupy, journey · To what, where: journey, carriage, many similar equipages, road, equipages

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 (repast, spaniels), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 carriage	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 carriage	det
3	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 continued	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 continued	nsubj
5	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 journey	nmod:poss
7	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 continued	obj
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 comfortably	advmod
9	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	_	5 continued	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 passing	punct
11	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 continued	advcl
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 equipages	amod
13	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 equipages	amod
14	equipages	equipage	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 passing	obj
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 road	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 road	det
17	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 passing	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saluted	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 saluted	cc
20	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 saluted	aux:pass
21	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 saluted	advmod
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 courteously	advmod
23	courteously	courteously	ADV	_	24 saluted	advmod
24	saluted	salute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 continued	conj
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 spaniels	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 spaniels	det
27	spaniels	spaniel	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 saluted	obl
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 occupied	nsubj
29	occupied	occupy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 spaniels	acl:relcl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 occupied	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	continue	past	repast	repast's journey	this carriage	comfortably property	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme
2	pass	gerund	repast not said here	many similar equipages	the road		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent equipage=Theme upon road=Destination
3	salute	gerund · passive	the spaniels			always, courteously property	vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	occupy	past	the spaniels	equipages = equipage			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
5	journey		repast				nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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 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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