The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 34
They came from all sides, till at length there appeared to be hundreds of them.
Who acts: dwarfs, length · What happens: come, appear, be · To what, where: sides, hundreds
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarfs, length), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 sides | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 sides | det |
| 5 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 appeared | punct |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 appeared | mark |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 length | case |
| 9 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appeared | nsubj |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 length | advmod |
| 11 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 hundreds | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hundreds | cop |
| 14 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 appeared | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hundreds | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | dwarfs = dwarf | all sides | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from side=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | length | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | hundreds | of dwarfs = dwarf | tree rules |
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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