Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 29

The poor horses looked wretched; the flies settled on their backs in swarms, and they were only relieved when the coachmen got down and drove the creatures off.

Who acts: poor horses, flies, coachmen · What happens: look, settle, be, get down, drive off · To what, where: creatures

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. 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, flies, coachmen), 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	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 settled	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flies	det
8	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 settled	nsubj
9	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 backs	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 backs	nmod:poss
12	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 settled	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 swarms	case
14	swarms	swarm	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 backs	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 relieved	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 relieved	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 relieved	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 relieved	cop
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 relieved	advmod
20	relieved	relieved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 settled	conj
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 got	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 coachmen	det
23	coachmen	coachman	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 got	nsubj
24	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 relieved	advcl
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 got	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 drove	cc
27	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 settled	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 creatures	det
29	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 drove	obj
30	off	off	ADP	_	27 drove	compound:prt
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	the poor horses		wretched property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	settle	past	the flies		on flies's backs in swarms	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on back=Topic
3	is	past	flies = fly		relieved property	tree rules
4	get down	past	the coachmen		down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
5	drive off	past	the flies not said here	the creatures		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme creature=Trajectory

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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