The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 66
Why, horses and oxen and sheep stepped out in such numbers that they seemed as if they would stretch to the world’s end!
Who acts: horses · What happens: step out, seem, stretch · To what, where: such numbers, end
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 stepped | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 horses | punct |
| 3 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stepped | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 oxen | cc |
| 5 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 horses | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sheep | cc |
| 7 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 horses | conj |
| 8 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seemed | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 stepped | compound:prt |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 numbers | case |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 numbers | amod |
| 12 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stepped | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 seemed | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seemed | nsubj |
| 15 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 stretch | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 stretch | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stretch | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 stretch | aux |
| 20 | stretch | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seemed | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 end | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 end | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 world | case |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stretch | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step out | past | horses and oxen and sheep | such numbers | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in number=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | horses = horse | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | stretch a condition, not said to happen | would | horses = horse | to the world's end | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to end=Location |
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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