--- title: As soon as the swans which drew the Fairy’s chariot had alighted und… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As soon as the swans which drew the Fairy’s chariot had alighted under a porch, which was paved with diamonds and had arches of rubies, they were greeted on all sides by thousands of beautiful beings, who came to meet them joyfully, singing these words: Who acts: swans, thousands, beautiful beings. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/6/99/) [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 Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Yellow Dwarf, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/6/) / 99 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 99 As soon as the swans which drew the Fairy’s chariot had alighted under a porch, which was paved with diamonds and had arches of rubies, they were greeted on all sides by thousands of beautiful beings, who came to meet them joyfully, singing these words: **Who acts:** swans, thousands, beautiful beings · **What happens:** draw, alight, pave, have, greet, come · **To what, where:** chariot, porch, arches, sides, words This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (swans, thousands, beautiful beings), 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:pg503:6:99 # text = As soon as the swans which drew the Fairy’s chariot had alighted under a porch, which was paved with diamonds and had arches of rubies, they were greeted on all sides by thousands of beautiful beings, who came to meet them joyfully, singing these words: 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 as as ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 swans swan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’s 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 chariot chariot NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 alighted alight VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 ccomp _ _ 14 under under ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 porch porch NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 paved pave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl:relcl _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 diamonds diamond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 25 arches arch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 rubies ruby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 greeted greet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 advcl _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 35 by by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 beings being NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 42 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 45 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 joyfully joyfully ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 48 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 44 advcl _ _ 49 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 50 det _ _ 50 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **draw** | past | the swans | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **alight** | past · perfect · passive | | the Fairy's chariot | | a porch | | | tree rules | | 3 | **pave** | past · passive | | a porch | | | | with diamonds | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with diamond=Theme | | 4 | **have** | past | | arches of rubies | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arch=Patient | | 5 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past · passive | thousands of beautiful beings | arches *= arch* | | all sides | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 6 | **come** | past | beautiful beings | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **meet** | to-infinitive | beautiful beings *not said here* | arches *= arch* | | | | joyfully *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | | 8 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | beautiful beings *not said here* | this words | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme | 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 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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