The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 6

But along the road the snow was so wet and heavy that the boy could hardly get along, and then the thong of his snow-shoes broke, and he had to stop and mend it, so that the bear and the dog got so far ahead that he could scarcely hear the barking.

Who acts: snow, boy, thong, bear · What happens: be, get along, break, have, stop, mend · To what, where: thong, barking

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow, boy, thong, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 wet	cc
2	along	along	ADP	_	4 road	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 road	det
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wet	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snow	det
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wet	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wet	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 wet	advmod
9	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 heavy	cc
11	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wet	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 get	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 get	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 get	aux
16	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	17 get	advmod
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 heavy	advcl
18	along	along	ADV	_	17 get	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 broke	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 broke	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 broke	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 thong	det
23	thong	thong	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 broke	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 shoes	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 shoes	nmod:poss
26	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shoes	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 snow	punct
28	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 thong	nmod
29	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wet	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 had	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 broke	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 stop	mark
35	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 had	xcomp
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 mend	cc
37	mend	mend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 stop	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 mend	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 got	punct
40	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	47 got	mark
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 so	fixed
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 bear	det
43	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 got	nsubj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 dog	cc
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 dog	det
46	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 bear	conj
47	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 had	conj
48	so	so	ADV	_	50 ahead	advmod
49	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	50 ahead	advmod
50	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	47 got	advmod
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 hear	mark
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 hear	nsubj
53	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 hear	aux
54	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	55 hear	advmod
55	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 ahead	advcl
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 barking	det
57	barking	barking	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 hear	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 wet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the snow			along the road; wet property	tree rules
2	be		the snow not said here				tree rules
3	get along	could	the boy			along, hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	break	past	the thong of boy's snow shoes		then		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	have	past	boy				tree rules
6	stop	to-infinitive	boy not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	mend	infinitive	boy not said here	thong			tree rules
8	get	past	the bear and the dog			ahead property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
9	hear	could	boy	the barking		scarcely property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer barking=Stimulus

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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