The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 64
Just then arrived a chariot drawn by eagles, which proved to contain the foolish King and Queen, who embraced their long-lost son with great joy, and were greatly struck with the fact that they did indeed find him covered with fur!
Who acts: eagles, foolish King, King, subject · What happens: arrive, draw, prove, contain, embrace, lose · To what, where: chariot, foolish King, long lost son, subject
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagles, foolish King, King, subject), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chariot | det |
| 5 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obj |
| 6 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 chariot | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 eagles | case |
| 8 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 drawn | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 proved | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 proved | nsubj |
| 11 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 eagles | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 contain | mark |
| 13 | contain | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 proved | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 15 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 King | amod |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 contain | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Queen | cc |
| 18 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 King | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 embraced | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 embraced | nsubj |
| 21 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 King | acl:relcl |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 son | amod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 long | punct |
| 25 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 son | amod |
| 26 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 embraced | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 joy | case |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 joy | amod |
| 29 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 embraced | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 struck | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 struck | cc |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 struck | aux:pass |
| 33 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 34 struck | advmod |
| 34 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 arrived | conj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 fact | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 fact | det |
| 37 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 struck | obl |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 find | mark |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 find | nsubj |
| 40 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 find | aux |
| 41 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 42 find | advmod |
| 42 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 fact | acl |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 find | obj |
| 44 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 find | xcomp |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 fur | case |
| 46 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 covered | obl |
| 47 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | a chariot | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | draw | participle | a chariot not said here | by eagles | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | prove | past | eagles | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | contain | to-infinitive | eagles not said here | the foolish King and Queen | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot king=Theme | ||||
| 5 | embrace | past | the foolish King and Queen | King's long lost son | with great joy | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-Agent | |||
| 6 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | strike | past · passive | with the fact; greatly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: with fact=Theme | |||||
| 8 | find | past · do-support | King | subject | indeed property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 9 | cover | participle | subject not said here | with fur | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fur=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 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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