The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 93

First they set about finding some stout logs of wood to lay down on the marsh so that they could reach the mule, for by this time his frantic struggles had broken his bridle, and he was deeper in than ever.

Who acts: lights, time, mule · What happens: set, find, lay down, reach, break, be · To what, where: stout logs, marsh, mule, frantic struggles

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 (lights, time, mule), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 set	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 finding	mark
5	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 set	advcl
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 logs	det
7	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 logs	amod
8	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 finding	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 wood	case
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 logs	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 lay	mark
12	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 finding	advcl
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 lay	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 marsh	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 marsh	det
16	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obl
17	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	21 reach	mark
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 so	fixed
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 reach	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 reach	aux
21	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 lay	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mule	det
23	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 reach	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 time	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 time	case
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 time	case
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 time	det
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 reach	obl:unmarked
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 struggles	nmod:poss
30	frantic	frantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 struggles	amod
31	struggles	struggle	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 broken	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 broken	aux
33	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 time	acl:relcl
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 bridle	nmod:poss
35	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 broken	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 deeper	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 deeper	cc
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 deeper	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 deeper	cop
40	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 set	advcl
41	in	in	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	43 ever	case
42	than	than	ADP	_	41 in	fixed
43	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	40 deeper	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	present	lights = light				first property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	find	gerund	lights = light not said here	some stout logs of wood				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent log=Topic
3	lay down	to-infinitive	lights = light not said here		the marsh		down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on marsh=Destination
4	reach	could	lights = light	the mule		time		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mule=Theme
5	break	past · perfect · passive	this time not said here	mule's frantic struggles				vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient bridle=Result
6	is	past	mule				deep property	tree rules
7	struggle		mule					nom struggle «act 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 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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