The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 19

Sure enough, the horse had scarcely eaten a mouthful of corn out of the manger, when the rest of the horses seemed to have undergone a transformation.

Who acts: rest · What happens: eat, seem, undergo · To what, where: horse, transformation

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (rest), 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	Sure	sure	ADV	_	8 eaten	advmod
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Sure	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sure	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eaten	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 eaten	aux
7	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	8 eaten	advmod
8	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mouthful	det
10	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eaten	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 corn	case
12	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mouthful	nmod
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 manger	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 manger	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 manger	det
16	manger	manger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 corn	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seemed	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 seemed	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rest	det
20	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seemed	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 horses	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 horses	det
23	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 rest	nmod
24	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 manger	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	27 undergone	mark
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 undergone	aux
27	undergone	undergo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 seemed	xcomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 transformation	det
29	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 undergone	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect · passive		the horse	scarcely, sure property	tree rules
2	seem	past	the rest of the horses			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	undergo	to-infinitive · perfect	the rest of the horses not said here	a transformation		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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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