The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 55

For some days no one dared venture near the banks of the stream, but at length some of the watchmen noticed that early in the mornings, just at dawn, a man with a gold beard came down to the brook with a pail, which he filled up to the brim with milk, and then vanished like smoke before they could get near enough to see who he was.

Who acts: one, some, dared venture, pail, watchmen, venture · What happens: dare, venture, notice, come down, fill up, vanish · To what, where: banks, length, brook · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, some, dared venture, pail), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 days	det
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 venture	obl
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 venture	nsubj
6	dared	dare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 venture	amod
7	venture	venture	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 came	nsubj
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 banks	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 banks	det
10	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 venture	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 stream	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stream	det
13	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 banks	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 noticed	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 noticed	cc
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 length	case
17	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 noticed	obl
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 noticed	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 watchmen	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 watchmen	det
21	watchmen	watchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 some	nmod
22	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 venture	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 early	mark
24	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 noticed	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 mornings	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 mornings	det
27	mornings	morning	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 noticed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dawn	punct
29	just	just	ADV	_	31 dawn	advmod
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 dawn	case
31	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 noticed	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 man	punct
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 man	det
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dawn	conj
35	with	with	ADP	_	38 beard	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 beard	det
37	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 beard	compound
38	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 man	nmod
39	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
40	down	down	ADV	_	39 came	advmod
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 brook	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 brook	det
43	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 came	obl
44	with	with	ADP	_	46 pail	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 pail	det
46	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 brook	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 filled	punct
48	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 filled	nsubj
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 filled	nsubj
50	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 pail	acl:relcl
51	up	up	ADP	_	50 filled	compound:prt
52	to	to	ADP	_	54 brim	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 brim	det
54	brim	brim	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 filled	obl
55	with	with	ADP	_	56 milk	case
56	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 brim	nmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 vanished	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 vanished	cc
59	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	60 vanished	advmod
60	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 came	conj
61	like	like	ADP	_	62 smoke	case
62	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 vanished	obl
63	before	before	SCONJ	_	66 get	mark
64	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 get	nsubj
65	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	66 get	aux
66	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 vanished	advcl
67	near	near	ADV	_	66 get	advmod
68	enough	enough	ADV	_	67 near	advmod
69	to	to	PART	_	70 see	mark
70	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	66 get	xcomp
71	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	70 see	ccomp
72	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	71 who	nsubj
73	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	71 who	cop
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	dare	participle					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	venture		no one	the banks of the stream	day		tree rules
3	notice	past	some	length	dawn; morning	early property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	come down	past	dared venture	the brook with a pail		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brook=Initial_Location
5	fill up	past	a pail			to the brim with milk	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	vanish	past	dared venture not said here		then	like smoke	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	get	could	watchmen = watchman			near property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	see	to-infinitive	watchmen = watchman not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	is a	past	venture				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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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