The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 87

Besides, there was always the chance that the children might have been eaten by wolves, of which large herds roamed about in winter.

Who acts: wolves · What happens: be, eat, roam · To what, where: chance, children, large herds

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolves), 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	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	7 chance	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Besides	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chance	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 chance	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chance	det
7	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 eaten	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 children	det
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 eaten	nsubj:pass
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 eaten	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 eaten	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 eaten	aux:pass
14	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 chance	acl
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 wolves	case
16	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 eaten	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 herds	punct
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	21 herds	det
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 herds	amod
21	herds	herd	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 eaten	conj
22	roamed	roam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 herds	acl
23	about	about	ADP	_	25 winter	case
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 winter	case
25	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 roamed	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 chance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the chance		always property	tree rules
2	eat	might · perfect · passive	wolves	the children			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	roam	participle		which large herds not said here	winter		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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