The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 94
So, slipping on her snow-shoes, she started on her way.
Who acts: mother · What happens: slip on, start · To what, where: snow shoes, way
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 (mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3282:1262): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 11 started | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | slipping | slip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 started | advcl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 slipping | compound:prt |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shoes | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 snow | punct |
| 8 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 slipping | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 slipping | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 started | nsubj |
| 11 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 way | nmod:poss |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 started | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip on | gerund | mother not said here | mother's snow shoes | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient | ||||
| 2 | start | past | mother | mother's way | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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