The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 68

But at midnight there arose the loudest tumult in the world, and peeping out he beheld a mighty host of mice, which could neither be numbered nor measured.

Who acts: castle · What happens: arise, peep out, behold, number, measure · To what, where: loudest tumult, world, mighty host

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 arose	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 midnight	case
3	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arose	obl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 arose	advmod
5	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tumult	det
7	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 tumult	amod
8	tumult	tumult	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arose	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tumult	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 beheld	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 beheld	cc
14	peeping	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 beheld	csubj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 peeping	compound:prt
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 beheld	nsubj
17	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 arose	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 host	det
19	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 host	amod
20	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 beheld	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 mice	case
22	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 host	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 numbered	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 numbered	nsubj:pass
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 numbered	aux
26	neither	neither	ADV	_	28 numbered	advmod
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 numbered	aux:pass
28	numbered	number	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 host	acl
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	30 measured	cc
30	measured	measure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 numbered	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arise	past		the loudest tumult	the world; there	midnight		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tumult=Theme
2	peep out	gerund						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	behold	past	castle	a mighty host of mice				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer host=Stimulus
4	number	could · passive		a mighty host of mice			neither property	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	measure	participle						vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

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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