The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 63

As soon as he had loosened the sledge, he had taken his favourite fish from among the piles neatly arranged for sale, and had trotted off to the forest with it in his mouth.

Who acts: snow · What happens: loosen, take, arrange, trot off · To what, where: sledge, favourite fish, piles, mouth

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), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 taken	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 loosened	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loosened	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 loosened	aux
6	loosened	loosen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 taken	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sledge	det
8	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loosened	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 loosened	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 taken	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 taken	aux
12	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fish	nmod:poss
14	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fish	amod
15	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 taken	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 piles	case
17	among	among	ADP	_	19 piles	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 piles	det
19	piles	pile	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 taken	obl
20	neatly	neatly	ADV	_	21 arranged	advmod
21	arranged	arrange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 piles	acl
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 sale	case
23	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 arranged	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 trotted	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 trotted	cc
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 trotted	aux
27	trotted	trot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 taken	conj
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 trotted	compound:prt
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 forest	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 forest	det
31	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 trotted	obl
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 forest	nmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 mouth	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 mouth	nmod:poss
36	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 trotted	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	loosen	past · perfect	snow	the sledge			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sledge=Patient
2	take	past · perfect	snow	snow's favourite fish	the piles	soon property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent fish=Theme from pile=Initial_Location
3	arrange	participle		the piles not said here		for sale; neatly property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for sale=Beneficiary
4	trot off	past · perfect	snow not said here		snow's mouth	to the forest with sledge	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to forest=Destination

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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