--- title: One had a car of ebony, drawn by white pigeons, another was lying ba… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: One had a car of ebony, drawn by white pigeons, another was lying back in her ivory chariot, driving ten black crows, while the rest had chosen rare woods or many-coloured sea-shells, with scarlet and blue macaws, long-tailed peacocks, or green love-birds for horses. Who acts: One, another. A senten --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/56/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/) / 56 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 56 One had a car of ebony, drawn by white pigeons, another was lying back in her ivory chariot, driving ten black crows, while the rest had chosen rare woods or many-coloured sea-shells, with scarlet and blue macaws, long-tailed peacocks, or green love-birds for horses. **Who acts:** One, another · **What happens:** have, draw, lie back, drive, choose, tail · **To what, where:** car, white pigeons, ivory chariot, ten black crows, rest This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, another), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3027:22:56 # text = One had a car of ebony, drawn by white pigeons, another was lying back in her ivory chariot, driving ten black crows, while the rest had chosen rare woods or many-coloured sea-shells, with scarlet and blue macaws, long-tailed peacocks, or green love-birds for horses. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 ebony ebony NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 pigeons pigeon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 another another PRON DT PronType=Ind 15 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 acl _ _ 16 back back ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 ivory ivory ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 chariot chariot NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 driving drive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 23 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 24 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 while while SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 32 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 or or CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 35 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 38 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 shells shell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 scarlet scarlet NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 parataxis _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 macaws macaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 48 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 49 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 tailed tail VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 51 amod _ _ 51 peacocks peacock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 53 or or CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 54 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 55 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 56 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 55 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 57 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 conj _ _ 58 for for ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 59 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | One | a car of ebony | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Patient | | 2 | **draw** | participle | | a car of ebony *not said here* | | | | by white pigeons | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lie back** | past · progressive | another | white pigeons *not said here* | | queen's ivory chariot | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pigeon=Theme | | 4 | **drive** | gerund | another *not said here* | ten black crows | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=Theme | | 5 | **choose** | past · perfect · passive | | the rest | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary wood=Theme | | 6 | **tail** | participle | | | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/57/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/)