The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 146

A few days later the little soldier was driven through the city in his coach drawn by six white horses, and with four lacqueys richly dressed standing behind.

What happens: drive, draw, dress, stand behind · To what, where: little soldier, city, coach

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 days	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 later	obl:unmarked
4	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 driven	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soldier	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 soldier	amod
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 driven	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 driven	aux:pass
9	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 city	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 city	det
12	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 driven	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 coach	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 coach	nmod:poss
15	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 city	nmod
16	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 coach	acl
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 horses	case
18	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 horses	nummod
19	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 horses	amod
20	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 drawn	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dressed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dressed	cc
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 four	case
24	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 dressed	obl
25	lacqueys	lacquey	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 dressed	aux
26	richly	richly	ADV	_	27 dressed	advmod
27	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 driven	conj
28	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 dressed	xcomp
29	behind	behind	ADV	_	28 standing	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 driven	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive	past · passive	the little soldier	the city in soldier's coach	late property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme through city=Trajectory
2	draw	participle	soldier's coach not said here		by six white horses	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dress	present			with four; richly property	tree rules
4	stand behind	gerund			behind property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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