The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 95

The rest of the thieves--and there were still many remaining--instead of being frightened into honesty, as Virgilius had hoped, prepared rope ladders with hooks to them, and when they heard the sound of the horse’s hoofs they stuck their ladders into the walls, and climbed up above the reach of the horse and its rider.

Who acts: rest, horses · What happens: remain, frighten, hope, hear, stick, climb up · To what, where: honesty, Virgilius, thieves, sound, ladders, walls

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 (rest, horses), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rest	det
2	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 remaining	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 thieves	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thieves	det
5	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rest	nmod
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 remaining	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 were	cc
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 were	expl
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 remaining	aux
10	still	still	ADV	_	12 remaining	advmod
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 remaining	nsubj
12	remaining	remain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 frightened	punct
14	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 frightened	mark
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 instead	fixed
16	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 frightened	aux:pass
17	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 remaining	parataxis
18	into	into	ADP	_	19 honesty	case
19	honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 frightened	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hoped	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 hoped	mark
22	Virgilius	Virgilius	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 hoped	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hoped	aux
24	hoped	hope	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 frightened	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ladders	punct
26	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ladders	amod
27	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ladders	compound
28	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hoped	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 hooks	case
30	hooks	hook	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 ladders	nmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hoped	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 heard	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 heard	cc
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 heard	advmod
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 heard	nsubj
37	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 frightened	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sound	det
39	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 heard	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	44 hoofs	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 horse	det
42	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 hoofs	nmod:poss
43	’s	's	PART	_	42 horse	case
44	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 sound	nmod
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 stuck	nsubj
46	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 hoofs	acl:relcl
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 ladders	nmod:poss
48	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 stuck	obj
49	into	into	ADP	_	51 walls	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 walls	det
51	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 stuck	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 climbed	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 climbed	cc
54	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 heard	parataxis
55	up	up	ADP	_	54 climbed	compound:prt
56	above	above	ADP	_	58 reach	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 reach	det
58	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 climbed	obl
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 horse	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 horse	det
61	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 reach	nmod
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 rider	cc
63	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 rider	nmod:poss
64	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 horse	conj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 remaining	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	remain	past · progressive	the rest of the thieves				still	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	frighten	gerund · passive				honesty		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	hope	past · perfect · passive		Virgilius	thieves = thief			tree rules
4	hear	past	horses = horse	the sound of the horse's hoofs				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
5	stick	past	horses = horse	horses's ladders		the walls		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ladder=Theme into wall=Destination
6	climb up	past				the reach of the horse and rest's rider		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above reach=Trajectory

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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