The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 9

And the snow-shoes sang in answer that they would run like the wind.

Who acts: snow shoes, shoes · What happens: sing, run · To what, where: answer

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 shoes, shoes), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 sang	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shoes	det
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shoes	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 snow	punct
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sang	nsubj
6	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 answer	case
8	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sang	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 run	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 run	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 run	aux
12	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sang	advcl
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 wind	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wind	det
15	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 run	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the snow shoes			answer			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in answer=Location
2	run	would	shoes = shoe					like the wind	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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