The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 60

Then he got down to secure more firmly the cloths that kept his goods dry, and going to the end of the long row, discovered that the sledge containing the fish and the fox was missing.

Who acts: snow, cloths, sledge · What happens: get down, secure, keep, go, discover, contain · To what, where: cloths, goods, end, fish

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 (snow, cloths, sledge), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 secure	mark
6	secure	secure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 got	xcomp
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 firmly	advmod
8	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	6 secure	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cloths	det
10	cloths	cloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 secure	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 kept	nsubj
12	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cloths	acl:relcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 goods	nmod:poss
14	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	12 kept	obj
15	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kept	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 discovered	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 discovered	cc
18	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 discovered	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 end	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 end	det
21	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 going	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 row	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 row	det
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 row	amod
25	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 end	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 going	punct
27	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 missing	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sledge	det
30	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 missing	nsubj
31	containing	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 sledge	acl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fish	det
33	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 containing	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 fox	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 fox	det
36	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fish	conj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 missing	cop
38	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 discovered	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get down	past	snow		then	down property	tree rules
2	secure	to-infinitive	snow not said here	the cloths		firmly property	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition cloth=Theme
3	keep	past	the cloths	snow's goods		dry property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme
4	go	gerund			to the end of the long row		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location
5	discover	past	snow not said here				vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	contain	gerund	the sledge not said here	the fish and the fox			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fish=Theme
7	is	past	the sledge			missing property	tree rules

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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