The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 25

The coachman was a rose-coloured rat, the postilion a grey one, and the carriage was occupied by the tiniest and most charming figures, who could dance and do wonderful tricks.

Who acts: coachman, postilion, tiniest charming figures · What happens: be, one, occupy, dance, do · To what, where: coloured rat, carriage, wonderful tricks

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (coachman, postilion, tiniest charming figures), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coachman	det
2	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rat	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rat	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rat	det
5	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coloured	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 rose	punct
7	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rat	amod
8	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 postilion	det
11	postilion	postilion	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 one	nsubj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 one	det
13	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 one	amod
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rat	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 occupied	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 occupied	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 carriage	det
18	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 occupied	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 occupied	aux:pass
20	occupied	occupy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 rat	parataxis
21	by	by	ADP	_	27 figures	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 figures	det
23	tiniest	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 figures	amod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 most	cc
25	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 tiniest	conj
26	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 figures	compound
27	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 occupied	obl:agent
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dance	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 dance	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 dance	aux
31	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 figures	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 do	cc
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 dance	conj
34	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 tricks	amod
35	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 do	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 rat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the coachman	a coloured rat and a grey one	tree rules
2	one		the postilion		tree rules
3	occupy	past · passive	the tiniest charming figures	the carriage	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
4	dance	could	the tiniest charming figures		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	do	infinitive	the tiniest charming figures not said here	wonderful tricks	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality

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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