The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 92

After some miles they rode through a meadow with grass so green that Helga’s eyes felt quite dazzled; and feeding on the grass were a quantity of large fat sheep, with the curliest and whitest wool in the world.

Who acts: miles, eyes, feeding · What happens: ride, feel, dazzle, feed, be · To what, where: meadow, quantity

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miles, eyes, feeding), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 miles	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 miles	det
3	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rode	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rode	nsubj
5	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 meadow	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 meadow	det
8	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rode	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 grass	case
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rode	obl
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 green	advmod
12	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rode	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 felt	mark
14	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 eyes	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 Helga	case
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 felt	nsubj
17	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 green	advcl
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 dazzled	advmod
19	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 felt	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 quantity	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 quantity	cc
22	feeding	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 quantity	csubj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 grass	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 grass	det
25	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 feeding	obl
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 quantity	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 quantity	det
28	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rode	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 sheep	case
30	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sheep	amod
31	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sheep	amod
32	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 quantity	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 wool	punct
34	with	with	ADP	_	39 wool	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wool	det
36	curliest	curly	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 wool	amod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 whitest	cc
38	whitest	white	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 curliest	conj
39	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 quantity	conj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 world	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 world	det
42	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wool	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	miles = mile		a meadow	after some miles	with grass	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through meadow=Trajectory
2	feel	past	Helga's eyes					vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	dazzle	participle	Helga's eyes not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	feed	gerund					on the grass	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on grass=Patient
5	is a	past	feeding	a quantity and the curliest wool in the world			of large fat sheep	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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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