The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 55

But before they had gone very far, the fox, who was near the edge, contrived to slip over, and when the Laplander saw him stretched out on the snow he pulled up his reindeer and put the fox into one of the other sledges that was fastened behind, for it was market-day at the nearest town, and the man had much to sell.

Who acts: Fox, driver, Laplander, man · What happens: go, be, contrive, slip over, stretch out, pull up · To what, where: fox, edge, reindeer, snow, other sledges, nearest town

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, driver, Laplander, man), 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	_	18 contrived	cc
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 gone	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 contrived	advcl
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 far	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 gone	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fox	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fox	det
10	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 edge	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 edge	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 edge	cop
14	near	near	ADP	_	16 edge	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 edge	det
16	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fox	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct
18	contrived	contrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	PART	_	20 slip	mark
20	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 contrived	xcomp
21	over	over	ADV	_	20 slip	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 stretched	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 stretched	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 saw	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Laplander	det
26	Laplander	Laplander	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 saw	nsubj
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 stretched	aux:pass
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saw	obj
29	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 contrived	conj
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 stretched	compound:prt
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 snow	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 snow	det
33	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stretched	obl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 pulled	nsubj
35	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 snow	acl:relcl
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 pulled	compound:prt
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 reindeer	nmod:poss
38	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stretched	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 put	cc
40	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 stretched	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 fox	det
42	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 put	obj
43	into	into	ADP	_	44 one	case
44	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 put	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 sledges	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 sledges	det
47	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 sledges	amod
48	sledges	sledge	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 one	nmod
49	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 fastened	nsubj:pass
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 fastened	aux:pass
51	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 sledges	acl:relcl
52	behind	behind	ADV	_	51 fastened	advmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 day	punct
54	for	for	ADP	_	59 day	case
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 day	nsubj
56	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 day	cop
57	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 day	compound
58	-	-	PUNCT	_	57 market	punct
59	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 put	obl
60	at	at	ADP	_	63 town	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 town	det
62	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	63 town	amod
63	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 day	nmod
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 had	punct
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 had	cc
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 man	det
67	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 had	nsubj
68	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 contrived	conj
69	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 had	obj
70	to	to	PART	_	71 sell	mark
71	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	69 much	acl
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 contrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	Fox	the fox				far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the fox			the edge			tree rules
3	contrive	past							tree rules
4	slip over	to-infinitive						over property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	stretch out	past · passive		driver's reindeer		the snow			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»
6	pull up	past	driver	the snow not said here					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Theme
7	put	infinitive			the fox			into one of the other sledges	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fox=Goal
8	fasten	past · passive		the other sledges				behind property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
9	is	past	Laplander			the nearest town	for market day		tree rules
10	have	past	the man	much					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
11	sell	to-infinitive							vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

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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