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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 75

He took the road that led to the Holy Man’s cave, and made such haste that it was not long before he reached it.

Who acts: Father, road, haste · What happens: take, lead, make, not be, reach · To what, where: road, such haste, haste

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, road, haste), 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

nsubjdetobjnsubjacl:relclcasedetcompoundnmod:posscaseoblpunctccconjamodobjmarknsubjcopadvmodadvmodmarknsubjadvclobjpunctrootHePRONtookVERBtheDETroadNOUNthatPRONledVERBtoADPtheDETHolyPROPNManPROPN’sPARTcaveNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJmadeVERBsuchADJhasteNOUNthatSCONJitPRONwasAUXnotPARTlongADVbeforeSCONJhePRONreachedVERBitPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 tooknsubj
2tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 roaddet
4roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing2 tookobj
5thatthatPRONPronType=Rel6 lednsubj
6ledleadVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 roadacl:relcl
7totoADP_12 cavecase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 Mandet
9HolyHolyPROPN_10 Mancompound
10ManManPROPNNumber=Sing12 cavenmod:poss
11’s'sPART_10 Mancase
12cavecaveNOUNNumber=Sing6 ledobl
13,,PUNCT_15 madepunct
14andandCCONJ_15 madecc
15mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 tookconj
16suchsuchADJDegree=Pos17 hasteamod
17hastehasteNOUNNumber=Sing15 madeobj
18thatthatSCONJ_22 longmark
19ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 longnsubj
20wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 longcop
21notnotPARTPolarity=Neg22 longadvmod
22longlongADVDegree=Pos15 madeadvmod
23beforebeforeSCONJ_25 reachedmark
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 reachednsubj
25reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 longadvcl
26ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 reachedobj
27..PUNCT_2 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1takepastFatherthe roadvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme
2leadpastthe roadto the Holy Man's cavevn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to cave=Patient
3makepastFather not said heresuch hastevn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product
4not ispasthastelong propertytree rules
5reachpastFatherhastevn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: 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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