Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 9

So they went out with their axes, and soon all the roads and paths to the town were filled with logs and brush.

Who acts: men · What happens: go out, fill · To what, where: roads

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Other Wise Men of Gotham.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 axes	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 axes	nmod:poss
7	axes	ax	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 filled	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 filled	cc
10	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 all	advmod
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 roads	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 roads	det
13	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 filled	nsubj:pass
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 paths	cc
15	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 roads	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 town	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 town	det
18	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 roads	nmod
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 filled	aux:pass
20	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 logs	case
22	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 filled	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 brush	cc
24	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 logs	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	men = man					with men's axes; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with ax=Co-Agent
2	fill	past · passive		all roads to the town and paths				with logs and brush	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with log=Instrument

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/15/9/