The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 16

One day he met a carriage and pair, all draped in black; even the horses were covered with black trappings, and the coachman was clothed in crape from top to toe.

Who acts: youth, carriage · What happens: meet, drape, cover, clothe · To what, where: carriage, all, black, horses, coachman, crape

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 met	nsubj
4	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 carriage	det
6	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pair	cc
8	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carriage	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 draped	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 draped	nsubj:pass
11	draped	drape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 carriage	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 black	case
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 draped	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 covered	punct
15	even	even	ADV	_	17 horses	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 horses	det
17	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 covered	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 covered	aux:pass
19	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 met	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 trappings	case
21	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 trappings	amod
22	trappings	trapping	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 covered	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 clothed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 clothed	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 coachman	det
26	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 clothed	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 clothed	aux:pass
28	clothed	clothe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 covered	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 crape	case
30	crape	crape	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 clothed	obl
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 top	case
32	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 clothed	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 toe	case
34	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 top	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	youth	a carriage and pair		day		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Co-Agent
2	drape	participle · passive	a carriage and pair not said here	all	black			vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in black=Destination
3	cover	past · passive		the horses			with black trappings	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with trapping=Theme
4	clothe	past · passive		the coachman	crape		from top to toe	vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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