English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 4

One day a large waggon and eight horses, all with bells at their heads, drove through the village while Dick was standing by the sign-post.

Who acts: large waggon, Dick · What happens: drive, stand · To what, where: village

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large waggon, Dick), 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	17 drove	obl:unmarked
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 waggon	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 waggon	amod
5	waggon	waggon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drove	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 horses	cc
7	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 horses	nummod
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 waggon	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 all	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 horses	appos
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 bells	case
12	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 all	nmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 heads	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 heads	nmod:poss
15	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bells	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 waggon	punct
17	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	through	through	ADP	_	20 village	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 village	det
20	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drove	obl
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 standing	mark
22	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 standing	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 standing	aux
24	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 drove	advcl
25	by	by	ADP	_	29 post	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 post	det
27	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 post	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 sign	punct
29	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 standing	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	a large waggon and eight horses			the village	day		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through village=Trajectory
2	stand	past · progressive	Dick					by the sign post	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by post=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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