The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 33

To his horror, the sheep were all stretched out dead before him, except one, which the wolf had eaten, bones and all.

What happens: stretch out, eat · To what, where: sheep, bones

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 horror	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 horror	nmod:poss
3	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stretched	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 horror	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sheep	det
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stretched	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stretched	aux:pass
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 stretched	advmod
9	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 stretched	compound:prt
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stretched	xcomp
12	before	before	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stretched	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 one	punct
15	except	except	ADP	_	16 one	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 stretched	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 eaten	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 eaten	nsubj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wolf	det
20	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eaten	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 eaten	aux
22	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 one	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bones	punct
24	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 eaten	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 all	cc
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 bones	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch out	past · passive		the sheep			before ram	to ram's horror result; all, dead property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to horror=Result
2	eat	past · perfect · passive		bones					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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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