The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 56

At length all the horses were so tired that they could do no more, and so hot that the foam dropped from them and the riders were forced to give up the attempt.

Who acts: princes, foam, riders · What happens: be, do, drop, force, give up · To what, where: length, more, riders, attempt

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes, foam, riders), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tired	obl
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 horses	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horses	det
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 length	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tired	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 tired	advmod
8	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 do	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tired	ccomp
13	no	no	ADV	_	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 do	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hot	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hot	cc
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 hot	advmod
18	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tired	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 dropped	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 foam	det
21	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dropped	nsubj
22	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hot	advcl
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dropped	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 forced	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 riders	det
27	riders	rider	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 forced	nsubj:pass
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 forced	aux:pass
29	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 dropped	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 give	mark
31	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 forced	xcomp
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 give	compound:prt
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 attempt	det
34	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 give	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past			length all horses	tired property	tree rules
2	do	could	princes = prince	more			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality
3	be						tree rules
4	drop	past	the foam			from princes = prince	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from they=Trajectory
5	force	past · passive		the riders			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
6	give up	to-infinitive	the riders not said here	the attempt			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Source

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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