The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 53
Just before entering it, a glittering carriage came out to meet him, in which was seated a young lady as beautiful as the day, but with a very solemn and serious expression.
Who acts: glittering carriage · What happens: enter, glitter, come out, meet, seat · To what, where: wish, Peter, young lady
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glittering carriage), 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 entering | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 entering | mark |
| 3 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entering | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 entering | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 carriage | det |
| 7 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 carriage | amod |
| 8 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 meet | mark |
| 12 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 came | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 meet | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seated | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 seated | obl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seated | aux:pass |
| 18 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 meet | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 lady | det |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lady | amod |
| 21 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seated | obj |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 beautiful | advmod |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lady | amod |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 day | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 day | det |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beautiful | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 expression | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 expression | cc |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 expression | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 expression | det |
| 31 | very | very | ADV | _ | 32 solemn | advmod |
| 32 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 expression | amod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 serious | cc |
| 34 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 solemn | conj |
| 35 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | gerund | a glittering carriage not said here | wish | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | ||||
| 2 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | come out | past | a glittering carriage | with a solemn expression; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | a glittering carriage not said here | Peter | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | seat | past · passive | a glittering carriage not said here | a young lady | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: lady=Value in which=Location |
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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