The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 3

These appeared to be assembling at the exact spot where they were preparing to run ashore, and what was their surprise to find they were nothing more nor less than large and beautiful spaniels, some mounted as sentries, others grouped in companies and regiments, all eagerly watching their disembarkation.

Who acts: These, forms, others, all · What happens: appear, assemble, prepare, run, be, find · To what, where: exact spot, surprise, nothing, some, companies, disembarkation · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (These, forms, others, all), 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	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 appeared	nsubj
2	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 assembling	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 assembling	aux
5	assembling	assemble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 appeared	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 spot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spot	det
8	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spot	amod
9	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 assembling	obl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 preparing	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 preparing	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 preparing	aux
13	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 spot	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 run	mark
15	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 preparing	xcomp
16	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	15 run	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 surprise	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 surprise	cc
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 surprise	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 surprise	cop
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 surprise	nmod:poss
22	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 appeared	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 find	mark
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 surprise	csubj
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 nothing	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 nothing	cop
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 find	ccomp
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 nothing	amod
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	30 less	cc
30	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 more	conj
31	than	than	ADP	_	35 spaniels	case
32	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 spaniels	amod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 beautiful	cc
34	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 large	conj
35	spaniels	spaniel	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 more	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 mounted	punct
37	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	38 mounted	nsubj:pass
38	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 nothing	conj
39	as	as	ADP	_	40 sentries	case
40	sentries	sentry	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 mounted	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 grouped	punct
42	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 grouped	nsubj
43	grouped	group	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 appeared	conj
44	in	in	ADP	_	45 companies	case
45	companies	company	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 grouped	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 regiments	cc
47	regiments	regiment	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 companies	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 watching	punct
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 watching	nsubj
50	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	51 watching	advmod
51	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 grouped	advcl
52	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 disembarkation	nmod:poss
53	disembarkation	disembarkation	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 watching	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	past	These				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	assemble	to-infinitive · progressive	These not said here		the exact spot		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	prepare	past · progressive	forms = form				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
4	run not said to happen	to-infinitive	forms = form not said here			ashore property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past		forms's surprise			tree rules
6	find	to-infinitive					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past	forms = form	nothing			tree rules
8	mount	participle · passive		some		as sentries	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
9	group	past	others			in companies and regiments goal	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in company=Goal
10	watch	gerund	all	forms's disembarkation		eagerly property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disembarkation=Theme
11	disembark		forms = form				nom disembarkation «act intransitive»: poss=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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