The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 165

The stable boys were just watering the horses for the night, and it was quite as much as they could do to attend to that.

Who acts: stable boys, staff, horses · What happens: water, be, do, attend · To what, where: horses

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stable boys, staff, horses), 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	3 boys	det
2	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boys	amod
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 watering	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 watering	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 watering	advmod
6	watering	water	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horses	det
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 watering	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 night	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watering	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 much	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 much	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 much	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 much	cop
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 watering	obj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 do	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 do	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 do	aux
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 much	acl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 attend	mark
24	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 do	xcomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 that	case
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 attend	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 watering	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	water	past · progressive	the stable boys	the horses	night		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination
2	is	past	staff			much property	tree rules
3	do	could	horses = horse				tree rules
4	attend	to-infinitive	horses = horse not said here			to that	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to that=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 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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