The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 97

All around on the dreary shore there was snow and snow as far as the eye could see; little grey men in shaggy skins moved about, and drove in small sledges through the snow drifts, but the sledges were drawn by dogs.

Who acts: eye, dreary shore, snow, dogs · What happens: see, move about, drive, drift, draw · To what, where: small sledges, sledges

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eye, dreary shore, snow, dogs), 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	All	all	ADV	_	2 around	advmod
2	around	around	ADV	_	6 shore	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 shore	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shore	det
5	dreary	dreary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shore	amod
6	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 moved	nsubj
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shore	acl:relcl
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 snow	cc
11	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 snow	conj
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 far	advmod
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 was	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 see	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 eye	det
16	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 far	advcl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 men	punct
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 men	amod
21	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 men	amod
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 moved	nsubj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 skins	case
24	shaggy	shaggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 skins	amod
25	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 men	nmod
26	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	about	about	ADV	_	26 moved	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 drove	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 drove	cc
30	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 moved	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 sledges	case
32	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sledges	amod
33	sledges	sledge	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 drove	obl
34	through	through	ADP	_	37 drifts	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 snow	det
36	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 drifts	nsubj
37	drifts	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 drove	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 drawn	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 drawn	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sledges	det
41	sledges	sledge	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 drawn	nsubj:pass
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 drawn	aux:pass
43	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 moved	conj
44	by	by	ADP	_	45 dogs	case
45	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 drawn	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 moved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	could	the eye				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	move about	past	the dreary shore			about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	drive	past	the dreary shore not said here		small sledges		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	drift	present	the snow				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	draw	past · passive	dogs	the sledges			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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