The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 83
And that day the slaves in their black robes, and each having a large bat perched upon his head, marched in slow procession with the Prince in their midst, chanting a melancholy song, to the iron gate that led into a kind of Temple.
Who acts: each, iron gate · What happens: bat, perch, march, chant, lead · To what, where: large bat, head, slow procession, melancholy song, iron gate, kind
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (each, iron gate), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 slaves | cc |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slaves | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 slaves | det |
| 5 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 robes | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 robes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 robes | amod |
| 9 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 slaves | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bat | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bat | cc |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 bat | nsubj |
| 13 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 bat | aux |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bat | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bat | amod |
| 16 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slaves | conj |
| 17 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 bat | acl |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 head | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 perched | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 marched | punct |
| 22 | marched | march | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 slaves | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 procession | case |
| 24 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 procession | amod |
| 25 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 marched | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 Prince | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Prince | det |
| 28 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 procession | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 midst | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 midst | nmod:poss |
| 31 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 marched | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 chanting | punct |
| 33 | chanting | chant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 marched | advcl |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 song | det |
| 35 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 song | compound |
| 36 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 chanting | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 gate | punct |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 gate | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 gate | det |
| 40 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 gate | compound |
| 41 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 chanting | obl |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 led | nsubj |
| 43 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 gate | acl:relcl |
| 44 | into | into | ADP | _ | 46 kind | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 kind | det |
| 46 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 led | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Temple | case |
| 48 | Temple | Temple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 kind | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slaves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bat | gerund | each | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | perch | participle | a large bat not said here | water's head | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon head=Location | ||||
| 3 | march | participle | slow procession with the Prince | in bats's midst | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in procession=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | chant | gerund | a melancholy song | the iron gate | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic to gate=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | lead | past | the iron gate | a kind of Temple | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into kind=Destination |
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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