The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 29

Though he knew it would take some hours to get through the forest, he was so anxious to be at his journey’s end that he resolved to go on; but night overtook him, and the deep snow and bitter frost made it impossible for his horse to carry him any further.

Who acts: merchant, it, night, deep snow · What happens: know, take, get, be, resolve, go on · To what, where: forest, end, merchant, town · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, it, night, deep snow), 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	Though	though	SCONJ	_	3 knew	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knew	ccomp
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 hours	det
8	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 get	mark
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	advcl
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 forest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 forest	det
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 anxious	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 anxious	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 anxious	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 anxious	advmod
18	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knew	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	25 end	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 end	cop
21	at	at	ADP	_	25 end	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 journey	nmod:poss
23	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 end	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 journey	case
25	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 anxious	ccomp
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 resolved	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 resolved	nsubj
28	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 end	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 go	mark
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 resolved	xcomp
31	on	on	ADV	_	30 go	advmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 overtook	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 overtook	cc
34	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 overtook	nsubj
35	overtook	overtake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	parataxis
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 overtook	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 made	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 made	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 snow	det
40	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 snow	amod
41	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 made	nsubj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 frost	cc
43	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 frost	amod
44	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 snow	conj
45	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 overtook	conj
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 made	obj
47	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 made	xcomp
48	for	for	ADP	_	50 horse	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 horse	nmod:poss
50	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 made	obl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 carry	mark
52	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 made	advcl
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 carry	obj
54	any	any	ADV	_	55 further	advmod
55	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	52 carry	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	merchant					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	take	would	it			hour		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	get	to-infinitive			the forest			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through forest=Destination
4	is	past	merchant				anxious property	tree rules
5	is	to-infinitive	merchant not said here			at merchant's journey's end		tree rules
6	resolve	past	merchant					tree rules
7	go on	to-infinitive	merchant not said here					vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	overtake	past	night	merchant				tree rules
9	make	past	the deep snow and bitter frost	town			for merchant's horse; impossible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for horse=Beneficiary
10	carry	to-infinitive	the deep snow and bitter frost not said here	merchant			far property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
11	journey		merchant					nom journey «act transitive»: 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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