The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 87

One morning, when winter was coming on, the youth and his companions set off as usual to bring back some of the mountain goats and deer to be salted down, as he was afraid of a snow-storm; and if the wind blew and the snow drifted the forest might be impassable for some weeks.

Who acts: winter, youth, man, wind, snow, forest · What happens: come on, set off, bring back, salt down, be, blow · To what, where: some

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 (winter, youth, man, wind), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 morning	nummod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 set	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 coming	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 coming	advmod
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coming	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 coming	aux
7	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 morning	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 coming	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 youth	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youth	det
11	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 set	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 companions	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 companions	nmod:poss
14	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 youth	conj
15	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 set	compound:prt
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 usual	case
18	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 set	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 bring	mark
20	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 set	advcl
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 bring	advmod
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 bring	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 goats	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 goats	det
25	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 goats	compound
26	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 some	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 deer	cc
28	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 goats	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	31 salted	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 salted	aux:pass
31	salted	salt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 bring	advcl
32	down	down	ADP	_	31 salted	compound:prt
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 afraid	punct
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 afraid	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 afraid	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 afraid	cop
37	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 salted	advcl
38	of	of	ADP	_	42 storm	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 storm	det
40	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 storm	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 snow	punct
42	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 afraid	obl
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 blew	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 blew	cc
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	48 blew	mark
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 wind	det
47	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 blew	nsubj
48	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 set	parataxis
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 drifted	cc
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 snow	det
51	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 drifted	nsubj
52	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 blew	conj
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 forest	det
54	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 impassable	nsubj
55	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 impassable	aux
56	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	57 impassable	cop
57	impassable	impassable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 drifted	ccomp
58	for	for	ADP	_	60 weeks	case
59	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	60 weeks	det
60	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 impassable	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come on	past · progressive	winter				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	set off	past	the youth and man's companions		morning	as usual	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bring back	to-infinitive	the youth and man's companions not said here	some			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent some=Theme
4	salt down	to-infinitive · passive	the youth and man's companions not said here				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»
5	is	past	man			of a snow storm; afraid property	tree rules
6	blow a condition, not said to happen	past	the wind				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
7	drift	past	the snow				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is	might	the forest		week	impassable property	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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