The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 66

The winter was long and cold, and the thoughts of the villagers were much busier with wolves than with Andras Baive, when suddenly, on a frosty day, he made his appearance in the little town of Vadso.

Who acts: winter, thoughts, Andras · What happens: be, make, think · To what, where: appearance, little town, villagers

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (winter, thoughts, Andras), 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 winter	det
2	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 long	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cold	cc
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 busier	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 busier	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thoughts	det
10	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 busier	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 villagers	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 villagers	det
13	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 thoughts	nmod
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 busier	cop
15	much	much	ADV	_	16 busier	advmod
16	busier	busy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 long	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 wolves	case
18	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 busier	obl
19	than	than	ADP	_	21 Andras	case
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 Andras	case
21	Andras	Andras	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 busier	obl
22	Baive	Baive	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Andras	flat
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 suddenly	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 suddenly	advmod
25	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	16 busier	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 day	punct
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 day	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 day	det
29	frosty	frosty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 day	amod
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 busier	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 made	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 made	nsubj
33	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	conj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 appearance	nmod:poss
35	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 town	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 town	det
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 town	amod
39	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 Vadso	case
41	Vadso	Vadso	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 town	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the winter				long property	tree rules
2	be		the winter not said here					tree rules
3	is	past	the thoughts of the villagers			day	with wolves; than Andras; busy property	tree rules
4	make	past	Andras	Andras's appearance	the little town of Vadso			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Product
5	think			the villagers				nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=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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