Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 83

The poor horses, tortured almost to death, suffered most from this truly Egyptian plague; the flies alighted upon them in large disgusting swarms; and if the coachman got down and scraped them off, hardly a minute elapsed before they were there again.

Who acts: poor horses, coachman, flies · What happens: torture, suffer, alight, get down, scrape off, elapse · To what, where: poor horses, most, Egyptian plague, flies, large disgusting swarms, minute

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor horses, coachman, flies), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horses	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horses	amod
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 suffered	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tortured	punct
5	tortured	torture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 horses	acl
6	almost	almost	ADV	_	8 death	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 death	case
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tortured	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 horses	punct
10	suffered	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 suffered	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	16 plague	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 plague	det
14	truly	truly	ADV	_	15 Egyptian	advmod
15	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 plague	amod
16	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 most	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 flies	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 flies	det
19	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 suffered	obl
20	alighted	alight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 flies	acl
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 alighted	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 swarms	case
24	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 swarms	amod
25	disgusting	disgusting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 swarms	amod
26	swarms	swarm	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 alighted	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 got	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 got	cc
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 got	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 coachman	det
31	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 got	nsubj
32	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 suffered	parataxis
33	down	down	ADV	_	32 got	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 scraped	cc
35	scraped	scrape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 got	conj
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 scraped	obj
37	off	off	ADP	_	35 scraped	compound:prt
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 minute	punct
39	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	41 minute	advmod
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 minute	det
41	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 scraped	obl:unmarked
42	elapsed	elapse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 minute	acl
43	before	before	SCONJ	_	46 there	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 there	nsubj
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 there	cop
46	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 elapsed	advmod
47	again	again	ADV	_	46 there	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 suffered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	torture	participle		the poor horses not said here			to death	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	suffer	past	the poor horses	most	this Egyptian plague		the flies obl	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer most=Stimulus
3	alight	participle		the flies not said here	large disgusting swarms		upon flies = fly	tree rules
4	get down a condition, not said to happen	past	the coachman				down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
5	scrape off	past	the coachman not said here	flies = fly		minute		vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	elapse	participle		a minute not said here				tree rules
7	is	past	flies = fly			again	there property	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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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