The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 88

Drums and trumpets sounded, a man in a scarlet mantle, embroidered in gold, sat on a splendidly caparisoned horse surrounded by richly dressed slaves; half Bagdad crowded after him, and they all shouted, ‘Hail, Mirza, the Lord of Bagdad!’

Who acts: Drums, half · What happens: sound, embroider, sit, caparison, surround, dress · To what, where: man, gold, caparisoned horse, Drums

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drums, half), 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	Drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sounded	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 trumpets	cc
3	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Drums	conj
4	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sounded	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 mantle	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mantle	det
10	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mantle	compound
11	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 embroidered	punct
13	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 man	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 gold	case
15	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 embroidered	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sat	punct
17	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sounded	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	22 horse	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 horse	det
20	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	_	21 caparisoned	advmod
21	caparisoned	caparison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 horse	amod
22	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sat	obl
23	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 horse	acl
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 slaves	case
25	richly	richly	ADV	_	26 dressed	advmod
26	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 slaves	amod
27	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 surrounded	obl:agent
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 crowded	punct
29	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	31 crowded	nsubj
30	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 half	appos
31	crowded	crowd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sounded	parataxis
32	after	after	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 crowded	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 shouted	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 shouted	cc
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 shouted	nsubj
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 shouted	nsubj:pass
38	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 crowded	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Hail	punct
40	‘	'	PUNCT	_	41 Hail	punct
41	Hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 shouted	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 Mirza	punct
43	Mirza	Mirza	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Hail	appos
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 Lord	punct
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Lord	det
46	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Mirza	conj
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 Bagdad	case
48	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Lord	nmod
49	!	!	PUNCT	_	43 Mirza	punct
50	’	'	PUNCT	_	41 Hail	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	past	Drums and trumpets	a man in a scarlet mantle				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	embroider	participle		a man in a scarlet mantle not said here	gold			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in gold=Destination
3	sit	past	Drums and trumpets not said here				on a caparisoned horse	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on horse=Location
4	caparison	participle					splendidly property	tree rules
5	surround	participle		a caparisoned horse not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6	dress	participle					richly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	crowd	past	half			after Bagdad		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
8	shout speech: express	participle · passive		Drums = drum				tree rules

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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