The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 89

It soon grew so cold in the forest that at last one of the men declared they could walk no more, unless they could manage to warm themselves.

Who acts: forest, youth · What happens: grow, declare, walk, manage, warm · To what, where: forest, more, youth

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 (forest, youth), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grew	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 grew	advmod
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 cold	advmod
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 declared	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 one	case
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 declared	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 men	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 men	det
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
16	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 forest	acl:relcl
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 walk	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 walk	aux
19	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 declared	xcomp
20	no	no	ADV	_	21 more	advmod
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 walk	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 manage	punct
23	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	26 manage	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 manage	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 manage	aux
26	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 walk	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 warm	mark
28	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 manage	xcomp
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 warm	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	forest		the forest	cold, soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location
2	declare speech: other	past		the forest		at last one of the men	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Attribute clause=Theme
3	walk	could	youth	more			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=Trajectory
4	manage a condition, not said to happen	could	youth				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	warm	to-infinitive	youth not said here	youth			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient

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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