The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 61

Quick as they were they were too late, for the mink was already through the knot-hole and racing for his canoe.

Who acts: Mink · What happens: be · To what, where: knot hole

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mink), 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	Quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 late	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 late	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 late	cop
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 late	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 late	cop
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 late	advmod
8	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Quick	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hole	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 mink	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mink	det
12	mink	mink	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hole	obl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hole	cop
14	already	already	ADV	_	19 hole	advmod
15	through	through	ADP	_	19 hole	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hole	det
17	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hole	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 knot	punct
19	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 late	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 racing	cc
21	racing	racing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hole	conj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 canoe	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 canoe	nmod:poss
24	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hole	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Quick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mink					late property	tree rules
2	is	past	Mink not said here			the knot hole and racing		for the mink; for Wolf's canoe	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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