The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 32
And at his braying the animals came running, numerous as the stars in the sky, so that scarce was I able to stand among them.
Who acts: power, scarce · What happens: bray, come, run, be, stand · To what, where: animals
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power, scarce), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 2 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 4 braying | mark |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 braying | nsubj |
| 4 | braying | bray | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 animals | det |
| 6 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 braying | obj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 numerous | punct |
| 10 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 running | conj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 stars | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stars | det |
| 13 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 numerous | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 sky | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sky | det |
| 16 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stars | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 able | punct |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 able | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | scarce | scarce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 able | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 able | cop |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 able | nsubj |
| 23 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 came | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 stand | mark |
| 25 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 able | xcomp |
| 26 | among | among | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 stand | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bray | gerund | power | the animals | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | past | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | run | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | scarce | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stand | to-infinitive | scarce not said here | among stars = star | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among they=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 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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