The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 69

The air was warm and damp, and the snow soft and slushy, and the elder brother’s bowstring hung loose, while the bow of the younger caught in a tree and snapped in half.

Who acts: air, snow, bowstring · What happens: be, hang, catch, snap · To what, where: bow, tree, half

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 (air, snow, bowstring), 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 air	det
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warm	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 warm	cop
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 damp	cc
6	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 warm	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 soft	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 soft	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 snow	det
10	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 soft	nsubj
11	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 warm	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 slushy	cc
13	slushy	slushy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 soft	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hung	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hung	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 brother	det
17	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 brother	amod
18	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bowstring	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 brother	case
20	bowstring	bowstring	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hung	nsubj
21	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 warm	parataxis
22	loose	loose	ADV	_	21 hung	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bow	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 bow	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bow	det
26	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hung	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 younger	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 younger	det
29	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 bow	nmod
30	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 younger	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 tree	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 tree	det
33	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 caught	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 snapped	cc
35	snapped	snap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 caught	conj
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 half	case
37	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	35 snapped	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 warm	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the air			warm property	tree rules
2	be		the air not said here				tree rules
3	be		the snow				tree rules
4	hang	past	the elder brother's bowstring	the bow of the younger		loose property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	catch	participle	the elder brother's bowstring not said here		a tree		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	snap	participle	the elder brother's bowstring not said here		half		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in half=Location

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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