Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 121

And the number of them was such that there were more than the eye could see!

Who acts: number, more, eye · What happens: be, see

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number, more, eye), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 such	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 such	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 number	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 such	cop
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 were	mark
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 were	expl
10	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 such	advcl
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 were	nsubj
12	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 see	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 eye	det
14	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 see	aux
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 more	advcl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 such	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the number of mountains		such property	tree rules
2	be	past	more	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	could	the eye			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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