The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 28

The walk took some time, for it was very dark, and her shoes often stuck in the mud, but she was brave as well as beautiful and never thought of turning back merely because the path was both difficult and unpleasant.

Who acts: walk, mother, path · What happens: take, be, not think, turn back

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walk, mother, path), 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 walk	det
2	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dark	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 dark	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dark	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dark	cop
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 dark	advmod
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 took	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stuck	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stuck	cc
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 shoes	nmod:poss
15	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stuck	nsubj
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 stuck	advmod
17	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 took	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 mud	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mud	det
20	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stuck	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 brave	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 brave	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 brave	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 brave	cop
25	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stuck	conj
26	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	29 beautiful	cc
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 as	fixed
28	as	as	ADP	_	26 as	fixed
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 brave	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 thought	cc
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 thought	advmod
32	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 brave	conj
33	of	of	SCONJ	_	34 turning	mark
34	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 thought	advcl
35	back	back	ADV	_	36 merely	advmod
36	merely	merely	ADV	_	34 turning	advmod
37	because	because	SCONJ	_	42 difficult	mark
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 path	det
39	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 difficult	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 difficult	cop
41	both	both	CCONJ	_	42 difficult	cc:preconj
42	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 turning	advcl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 unpleasant	cc
44	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 difficult	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the walk	time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	walk		dark property	tree rules
3	is	past	mother		brave property	tree rules
4	be		mother not said here			tree rules
5	not think speech: other	past	mother not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	turn back	gerund	mother not said here		merely property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	the path		difficult property	tree rules
8	be		the path not said here			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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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