The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 76

So the youth rode onwards again, and many and many were the new scenes they saw, for travelling on Dapplegrim’s back was not travelling slowly, as may be imagined, and then Dapplegrim neighed.

Who acts: youth, many, new scenes, Dapplegrim · What happens: ride, be, see, travel, not travel, imagine · To what, where: new scenes, back · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, many, new scenes, Dapplegrim), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 rode	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	onwards	onwards	ADV	_	4 rode	advmod
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 rode	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 scenes	cc
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 scenes	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 many	cc
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 many	conj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 scenes	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 scenes	det
14	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 scenes	amod
15	scenes	scene	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 saw	nsubj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rode	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 travelling	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 travelling	mark
20	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 travelling	advcl
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 back	case
22	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 back	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 Dapplegrim	case
24	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 travelling	obl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 travelling	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 travelling	advmod
27	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 saw	ccomp
28	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	27 travelling	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 imagined	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 imagined	mark
31	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 imagined	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 imagined	aux:pass
33	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 saw	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 neighed	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 neighed	cc
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 neighed	advmod
37	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 neighed	nsubj
38	neighed	neigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rode	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	the youth			again	onwards property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	many	the new scenes				tree rules
3	see	past	the new scenes					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	travel	gerund			Dapplegrim's back			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory
5	not travel	past · progressive					slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	imagine	may · passive	the new scenes not said here					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»
7	neigh	past	Dapplegrim			then		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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