The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 80
The old man could not believe his eyes when he saw the multitudes of horses, oxen and sheep standing before his door.
Who acts: old man, Peter, sheep · What happens: not believe, see, stand · To what, where: eyes, multitudes, door
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 (old man, Peter, sheep), 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 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 believe | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 believe | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 believe | advmod |
| 6 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 believe | obj |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 saw | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 believe | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 multitudes | det |
| 13 | multitudes | multitude | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 saw | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 horses | case |
| 15 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 multitudes | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 oxen | punct |
| 17 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 horses | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sheep | cc |
| 19 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 horses | conj |
| 20 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 sheep | acl |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 door | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 door | nmod:poss |
| 23 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 standing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | could | the old man | man's eyes | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Peter | the multitudes of horses and oxen and sheep | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer multitude=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | sheep not said here | Peter's door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before door=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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