The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 43

For some reason, all the animals seemed to have left that part of the country, and food grew very scarce; so, one morning, after a night of snow, when the tracks of beasts might be easily seen, the three boys started off to hunt.

Who acts: animals, food, three boys · What happens: seem, leave, grow, see, start off, hunt · To what, where: part, tracks

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animals, food, three boys), 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 reason	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seemed	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reason	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 animals	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 animals	det
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 seemed	nsubj
8	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	11 left	mark
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 left	aux
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 seemed	xcomp
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 part	det
13	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 country	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 country	det
16	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 part	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grew	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 grew	cc
19	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grew	nsubj
20	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seemed	conj
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 scarce	advmod
22	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 grew	xcomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 morning	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	27 morning	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 morning	punct
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 morning	nummod
27	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seemed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 night	punct
29	after	after	ADP	_	31 night	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 night	det
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seemed	obl:unmarked
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 snow	case
33	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 night	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 seen	punct
35	when	when	SCONJ	_	43 seen	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 tracks	det
37	tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 seen	nsubj:pass
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 beasts	case
39	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 tracks	nmod
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 seen	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 seen	aux:pass
42	easily	easily	ADV	_	43 seen	advmod
43	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 snow	acl:relcl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 started	punct
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 boys	det
46	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 boys	nummod
47	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 started	nsubj
48	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 seen	conj
49	off	off	ADP	_	48 started	compound:prt
50	to	to	PART	_	51 hunt	mark
51	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 started	xcomp
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	all animals		morning; night	for some reason	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	leave	to-infinitive · perfect	all animals not said here	that part of the country			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
3	grow	past	food			scarce property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	might · passive		the tracks of beasts		easily property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
5	start off	past	the three boys				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	hunt	to-infinitive	the three boys not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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