The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 36

Directly he saw the little speck coming towards him, he wished that the man’s snow-shoes might break, and that very instant the Lapp’s shoes snapped in two.

Who acts: fox, little speck, snow shoes, shoes, man · What happens: see, come, wish, break, snap, snow · To what, where: little speck, two · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, little speck, snow shoes, shoes), 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	Directly	directly	ADV	_	3 saw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 speck	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 speck	amod
6	speck	speck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
7	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 speck	acl
8	towards	towards	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 coming	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wished	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wished	nsubj
12	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 break	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 snow	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 man	case
17	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shoes	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 snow	punct
19	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 break	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 break	aux
21	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wished	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 instant	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 instant	cc
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 instant	nsubj
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 instant	advmod
26	instant	instant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 snapped	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Lapp	det
28	Lapp	Lapp	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 shoes	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 Lapp	case
30	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 snapped	nsubj
31	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	parataxis
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 two	case
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 snapped	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	fox	the little speck		directly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer speck=Stimulus
2	come	gerund	the little speck not said here			towards fox	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location
3	wish	past	fox				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	break	might	snow shoes				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	snap	past	the Lapp's shoes		two		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in two=Location
6	snow		the man				nom snow «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

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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