The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 94

But at the last stroke of the bell the horse set off at full gallop through the streets of Rome, and by daylight men counted over two hundred corpses that it had trodden down.

Who acts: horse, daylight men · What happens: set off, count, tread down, stroke · To what, where: last stroke, counted hundred corpses, bell

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, daylight men), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 set	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 stroke	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stroke	det
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stroke	amod
5	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 set	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 bell	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bell	det
8	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stroke	nmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 set	nsubj
11	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 set	compound:prt
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 gallop	case
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 gallop	amod
15	gallop	gallop	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 set	obl
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 streets	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 streets	det
18	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 set	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Rome	case
20	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 streets	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 trodden	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 trodden	cc
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 men	case
24	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 men	compound
25	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 trodden	obl
26	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 corpses	amod
27	over	over	ADV	_	29 hundred	advmod
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 hundred	compound
29	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 corpses	nummod
30	corpses	corpse	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 trodden	nsubj:pass
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 trodden	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 trodden	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 trodden	aux
34	trodden	tread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 set	conj
35	down	down	ADP	_	34 trodden	compound:prt
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set off	past	the horse		the last stroke of the bell	at full gallop; through the streets of Rome	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through street=Initial_Location
2	count	participle					vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	tread down	past · perfect · passive	daylight men	counted hundred corpses			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location subject=Theme
4	stroke			the bell			nom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient

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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