The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 138

And lo, and behold I there stood all three dogs--the one with eyes as large as saucers, the second with eyes as large as mill-wheels, and the third with eyes each as large as the Round Tower of Copenhagen.

Who acts: I · What happens: stand · To what, where: three dogs

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 stood	cc
2	lo	lo	INTJ	_	8 stood	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stood	cc
5	behold	behold	INTJ	_	8 stood	discourse
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 stood	nsubj
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 stood	advmod
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 dogs	det
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 dogs	nummod
11	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stood	obj
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 large	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 large	nsubj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 eyes	case
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 large	advmod
18	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stood	parataxis
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 saucers	case
20	saucers	saucer	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 large	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 second	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 second	det
23	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 large	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 eyes	case
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 second	obl
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 large	advmod
27	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 second	amod
28	as	as	ADP	_	31 wheels	case
29	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wheels	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 mill	punct
31	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 large	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 third	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 third	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 third	det
35	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 stood	parataxis
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 eyes	case
37	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 third	obl
38	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	40 large	nsubj
39	as	as	ADV	_	40 large	advmod
40	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 third	conj
41	as	as	ADP	_	44 Tower	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Tower	det
43	Round	Round	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Tower	compound
44	Tower	Tower	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 large	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 Copenhagen	case
46	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Tower	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	I	all three dogs		there			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus

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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