The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 52

And in the mare’s ear there was a twig of sloe tree, and as he threw it behind him there sprung up twenty miles of thornwood so thick that scarce a weasel could go through it.

Who acts: twig, weasel · What happens: throw, spring up, be, scarce, go · To what, where: ear

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twig, weasel), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 was	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	6 ear	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mare	det
4	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ear	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 mare	case
6	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	obl
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 thick	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 twig	det
10	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 tree	case
12	sloe	sloe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tree	compound
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 twig	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 thick	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 thick	cc
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 threw	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 threw	nsubj
18	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 thick	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 threw	obj
20	behind	behind	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 threw	obl
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 sprung	advmod
23	sprung	spring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 threw	advcl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 sprung	compound:prt
25	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 miles	nummod
26	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 threw	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 thornwood	case
28	thornwood	thornwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 miles	nmod
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 thick	advmod
30	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 scarce	mark
32	scarce	scarce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 thick	advcl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 weasel	det
34	weasel	weasel	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 go	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 go	aux
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 scarce	ccomp
37	through	through	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 go	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 thick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	twig	ear		behind breath	tree rules
2	spring up	participle	twig not said here		there		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past				thick property	tree rules
4	scarce	present					tree rules
5	go	could	a weasel		ear		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through it=Initial_Location

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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