The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 95

As no fresh snow had fallen, the trail was quite easy to find, and she walked straight on, till it led her up to the pit where the bear was waiting for her.

Who acts: fresh snow, trail, snow, bear · What happens: fall, be, find, walk, lead up, wait · To what, where: trail

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 (fresh snow, trail, snow, bear), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	6 fallen	mark
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 snow	det
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snow	amod
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fallen	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fallen	aux
6	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 easy	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trail	det
9	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 easy	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 easy	cop
11	quite	quite	ADV	_	12 easy	advmod
12	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fallen	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 find	mark
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 easy	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 walked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 walked	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 walked	nsubj
18	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fallen	parataxis
19	straight	straight	ADV	_	20 on	advmod
20	on	on	ADV	_	18 walked	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 led	punct
22	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 led	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 led	nsubj
24	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 walked	conj
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 led	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 led	compound:prt
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 pit	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pit	det
29	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 led	obl
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 waiting	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bear	det
32	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 waiting	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 waiting	aux
34	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 pit	acl:relcl
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 waiting	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fallen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	no fresh snow			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the trail		easy property	tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive	the trail not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	walk	past	trail			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lead up	past	snow	trail	to the pit	tree rules
6	wait	past · progressive	the bear		for trail	vn exist-47.1 «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 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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