The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 177

As the night wore on the stable boys found it rather cold work to sit still on horseback.

Who acts: stable boys · What happens: wear, find, sit · To what, where: notice, horseback

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), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 night	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wore	obl
4	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	9 found	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boys	det
7	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boys	amod
8	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 found	nsubj
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wore	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	obj
11	rather	rather	ADV	_	12 cold	advmod
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 work	amod
13	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sit	mark
15	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 found	advcl
16	still	still	ADV	_	15 sit	advmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 horseback	case
18	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sit	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	wear	past				night	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	find	past	the stable boys	notice			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme work=Attribute
3	sit	to-infinitive	the stable boys not said here		horseback	still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on horseback=Location

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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