The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 64

Now, although the mink could not run as fast as the wolves, he had a good start, and was already afloat when the swiftest among them threw themselves into the nearest canoe.

Who acts: mink, Wolf, swiftest · What happens: not run, have, be, throw · To what, where: good start, Mink, nearest canoe

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, Wolf, swiftest), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	although	although	SCONJ	_	8 run	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mink	det
5	mink	mink	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 run	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 run	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 run	advmod
8	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	advcl
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 fast	advmod
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 run	advmod
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 wolves	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wolves	det
13	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fast	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 run	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 start	det
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 start	amod
19	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 afloat	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 afloat	cc
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 afloat	cop
23	already	already	ADV	_	24 afloat	advmod
24	afloat	afloat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 had	conj
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 swiftest	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 swiftest	det
27	swiftest	swift	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 threw	nsubj
28	among	among	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 swiftest	obl
30	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 afloat	parataxis
31	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 threw	obj
32	into	into	ADP	_	35 canoe	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 canoe	det
34	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 canoe	amod
35	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 threw	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not run	could	the mink			fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	Wolf	a good start	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=Patient
3	is	past	Wolf not said here			afloat property	tree rules
4	throw	past	the swiftest	Mink		into the nearest canoe result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer themselves=Theme into canoe=Result

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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