The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 38

Quick as lightning the wolf flew round the wood, and in a minute many hundred wolves rose up before him, increasing in number every moment, till they could be counted by thousands.

Who acts: wolf, many hundred wolves, thousands · What happens: fly, rise up, increase, count · To what, where: wood, number, wolves

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (wolf, many hundred wolves, thousands), 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	Quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lightning	case
2	as	as	ADP	_	1 Quick	fixed
3	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	nsubj
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 wood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wood	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rose	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rose	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 minute	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 minute	det
14	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rose	obl
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wolves	amod
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 wolves	nummod
17	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 rose	nsubj
18	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 rose	compound:prt
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rose	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 increasing	punct
23	increasing	increase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 rose	advcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 number	case
25	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 increasing	obl
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 moment	det
27	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 increasing	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 counted	punct
29	till	till	SCONJ	_	33 counted	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 counted	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 counted	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 counted	aux:pass
33	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 rose	conj
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 thousands	case
35	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 counted	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the wolf		the wood		quick lightning	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round wood=Trajectory
2	rise up	past	many hundred wolves			before Ferko; minute		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
3	increase	gerund	many hundred wolves not said here		number	moment		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	count	could · passive	thousands	wolves = wolf				vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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