The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 59

The roads are so muddy, after the winter’s rains.

Who acts: roads, winter · What happens: be, rain

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roads, winter), 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 roads	det
2	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 muddy	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 muddy	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 muddy	advmod
5	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rains	punct
7	after	after	ADP	_	11 rains	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 winter	det
9	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rains	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 winter	case
11	rains	rain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 muddy	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 muddy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the roads				after the winter's rains	muddy property	tree rules
2	rain		the winter						nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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