The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 10

The enemy was so frightened when they saw me that they leaped out of their ships and swam ashore, where there could not be fewer than thirty thousand.

Who acts: enemy, stockings · What happens: be, see, leap out, swim · To what, where: me, ships, fewer thirty thousand

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enemy, stockings), 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	2 enemy	det
2	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frightened	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 frightened	advmod
5	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 saw	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	advcl
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 saw	obj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 leaped	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 leaped	nsubj
12	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	advcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 ships	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 ships	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 ships	nmod:poss
16	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 leaped	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 swam	cc
18	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	conj
19	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	18 swam	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 be	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 be	advmod
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 be	expl
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 be	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 be	advmod
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 thousand	cop
26	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 thousand	amod
27	than	than	ADP	_	28 thirty	case
28	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 thousand	compound
29	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 swam	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the enemy		frightened property	tree rules
2	see	past	stockings = stocking	me		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
3	leap out	past	stockings = stocking	stockings's ships		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ship=Trajectory
4	swim	past	stockings = stocking not said here		ashore property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	infinitive		fewer thirty thousand		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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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