The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 7

As they were looking about to find where the largest berries grew they heard the tramp of horses approaching, so loud that you would have thought a whole army was riding by.

Who acts: sisters, largest berries, horses, you, whole army · What happens: look, find, grow, hear, approach, think · To what, where: tramp · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, largest berries, horses, you), 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	SCONJ	_	4 looking	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looking	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looking	aux
4	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	SCONJ	_	7 find	mark
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 looking	advcl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 grew	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 berries	det
10	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 berries	amod
11	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grew	nsubj
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 find	advcl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heard	nsubj
14	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 grew	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tramp	det
16	tramp	tramp	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heard	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 horses	case
18	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tramp	nmod
19	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 horses	acl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 loud	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 loud	advmod
22	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grew	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 thought	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 thought	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 thought	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 thought	aux
27	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 loud	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 army	det
29	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 army	amod
30	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 riding	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 riding	aux
32	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 thought	ccomp
33	by	by	ADP	_	32 riding	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	sisters = sister		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	find	to-infinitive	sisters = sister not said here		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	grow	past	the largest berries		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hear	past	sisters = sister	the tramp of horses	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tramp=Stimulus
5	approach	gerund	horses not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	think speech: other	would · perfect	you		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	ride by	past · progressive	a whole army		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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