The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 61

He quickly unharnessed one of his reindeer and rode back along the way he had come, to find the sledge standing safe in the middle of the road; but as the fox had bitten off the cord close to the noose there was no means of moving it away.

Who acts: snow, sledge · What happens: unharness, ride back, come, find, stand, bite off · To what, where: one, way, sledge, cord

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, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 unharnessed	nsubj
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 unharnessed	advmod
3	unharnessed	unharness	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 was	advcl
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 unharnessed	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 reindeer	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 reindeer	nmod:poss
7	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 one	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rode	cc
9	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 unharnessed	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 rode	advmod
11	along	along	ADP	_	13 way	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rode	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 come	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
16	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 way	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 find	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 find	mark
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 rode	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sledge	det
21	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 find	obj
22	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 sledge	acl
23	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 standing	xcomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 middle	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 middle	det
26	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 safe	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 road	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 road	det
29	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 middle	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 bitten	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 bitten	cc
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 fox	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fox	det
34	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bitten	obl
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 bitten	aux
36	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 unharnessed	parataxis
37	off	off	ADP	_	39 cord	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 cord	det
39	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bitten	obl
40	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 bitten	xcomp
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 noose	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 noose	det
43	noose	noose	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 close	obl
44	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	45 was	expl
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 means	nsubj
46	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	47 means	nsubj
47	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
48	of	of	SCONJ	_	49 moving	mark
49	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 means	xcomp
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 moving	obj
51	away	away	ADV	_	49 moving	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	unharness	past	snow	one of snow's reindeer		quickly property	tree rules
2	ride back	past	snow not said here		the way		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along way=Trajectory
3	come	past · perfect	snow	the way not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
4	find	to-infinitive	snow not said here	the sledge			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sledge=Topic
5	stand	gerund	the sledge not said here			safe property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	bite off	past · perfect		the cord		as the fox; close property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Patient
7	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	move away not said to happen	gerund		sledge		away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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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