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title: A hundred chariots followed, each drawn by eight horses, and filled… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A hundred chariots followed, each drawn by eight horses, and filled with officers in splendid uniforms, and a thousand guards surrounded the procession. Who acts: hundred chariots, each, thousand guards. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2, with its dependency t
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 12

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A hundred chariots followed, each drawn by eight horses, and filled with officers in splendid uniforms, and a thousand guards surrounded the procession.

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**Who acts:** hundred chariots, each, thousand guards · **What happens:** follow, draw, fill, surround · **To what, where:** splendid uniforms, procession

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundred chariots, each, thousand guards), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg503:24:12
# text = A hundred chariots followed, each drawn by eight horses, and filled with officers in splendid uniforms, and a thousand guards surrounded the procession.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	chariots	chariot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
7	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	uniforms	uniform	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
24	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | hundred chariots |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** | participle | each |  |  |  |  | by eight horses | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fill** | participle | each *not said here* |  |  | splendid uniforms |  | with officers | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with officer=Instrument |
| 4 | **surround** | participle | thousand guards *not said here* | the procession |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme procession=Co-Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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