The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 89

Now all that night it had rained heavily, and did not seem likely to stop, and in some places the road was so thick with mud that it was almost impossible to get across it.

Who acts: road · What happens: rain, not seem, stop, be, get · To what, where: night, places, road

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 rained	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 night	det
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rained	nsubj:pass
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rained	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rained	aux
7	rained	rain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	7 rained	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seem	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seem	cc
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seem	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 seem	advmod
13	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 rained	parataxis
14	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 seem	xcomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 stop	mark
16	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 likely	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thick	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 thick	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 places	case
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 places	det
21	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 thick	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 road	det
23	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 thick	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 thick	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 thick	advmod
26	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 seem	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 mud	case
28	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 thick	obl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 impossible	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 impossible	expl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 impossible	cop
32	almost	almost	ADV	_	33 impossible	advmod
33	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 thick	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 get	mark
35	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 impossible	csubj
36	across	across	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 get	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 rained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain	past · perfect · passive		all night		now	heavily property	tree rules
2	not seem	past · do-support					likely property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	stop	to-infinitive						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is	past	the road		some places		with mud; thick property	tree rules
5	is	past	the road not said here				almost, impossible property	tree rules
6	get	to-infinitive			road			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across it=Destination

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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