The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 80

For a while he was quite happy and content; but soon the winter came on, and snow began to fall, and everything to grow very wet and uncomfortable.

Who acts: spite, winter, snow · What happens: be, come on, begin, fall, grow

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spite, winter, snow), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 while	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 happy	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 happy	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 happy	cop
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 happy	advmod
7	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 content	cc
9	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 happy	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 came	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 winter	det
14	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 happy	conj
16	on	on	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
19	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 began	nsubj
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 fall	mark
22	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 everything	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 everything	cc
25	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 came	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 grow	mark
27	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 everything	acl
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 wet	advmod
29	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 grow	advcl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 uncomfortable	cc
31	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 wet	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 happy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	spite	while	happy property	tree rules
2	be		spite not said here			tree rules
3	come on	past	the winter		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begin	past	snow			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	fall	to-infinitive	snow not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	grow	to-infinitive	the winter not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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