The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 59

Now there were so many sledges that the Lapp did not notice for a long while that one was missing; indeed, he would have entered the town without knowing if snow had not suddenly begun to fall.

Who acts: many sledges, Lapp, one · What happens: be, not notice, enter, know, not begin, not fall · To what, where: many sledges, town, snow

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 (many sledges, Lapp, one), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 were	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 were	expl
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sledges	amod
6	sledges	sledge	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 were	nsubj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 notice	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Lapp	det
9	Lapp	Lapp	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 notice	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 notice	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 notice	advmod
12	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sledges	acl:relcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 long	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 long	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 notice	obl
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 missing	mark
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 missing	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 missing	cop
20	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 notice	advcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 missing	punct
22	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	20 missing	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 entered	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 entered	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 entered	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 entered	aux
27	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 missing	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 town	det
29	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 entered	obj
30	without	without	SCONJ	_	31 knowing	mark
31	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 entered	advcl
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 begun	mark
33	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 begun	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 begun	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 begun	advmod
36	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	37 begun	advmod
37	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 knowing	ccomp
38	to	to	PART	_	39 fall	mark
39	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 begun	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	many sledges		there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not notice	past · do-support	the Lapp	many sledges			for a long	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
3	is	past	that one				indeed, missing property	tree rules
4	enter	would · perfect	Lapp	the town				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=Destination
5	know	gerund	Lapp not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	not begin a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		snow			suddenly property	tree rules
7	not fall	to-infinitive						vn occur-48.3 «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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