The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 70

So the fox led him to the bank of a stream, which, being in a warm place, had only lightly frozen in places, and was at this moment glittering in the spring sunshine.

Who acts: fox, stream, moment · What happens: lead, be, have, freeze, glitter · To what, where: bear, bank, warm place, places, spring sunshine

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, stream, moment), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 led	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 led	nsubj
4	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 led	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 bank	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bank	det
8	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 led	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 stream	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stream	det
11	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bank	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 place	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 place	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 place	punct
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 place	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 place	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 place	det
18	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 place	amod
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stream	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 led	conj
22	only	only	ADV	_	24 frozen	advmod
23	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	24 frozen	advmod
24	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 had	xcomp
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 places	case
26	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 frozen	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 moment	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 moment	cc
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 moment	cop
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 moment	case
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 moment	det
32	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 led	obl:unmarked
33	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 moment	acl
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 sunshine	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sunshine	det
36	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sunshine	compound
37	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 glittering	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	past	the fox	bear	the bank of a stream and a warm place			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to bank=Destination
2	is	gerund	a stream and a warm place		a warm place			tree rules
3	have	past	the fox not said here					tree rules
4	freeze	participle	the fox not said here		places		lightly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is	past				at this moment		tree rules
6	glitter	gerund	this moment not said here		the spring sunshine			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location

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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