The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 31

In spite of his weariness the howling of the wolves kept him awake, and even when at last the day broke he was not much better off, for the falling snow had covered up every path, and he did not know which way to turn.

Who acts: howling, merchant, wolves · What happens: keep, break, be, fall, cover up, not know · To what, where: merchant, spite, falling snow, way, weariness

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 (howling, merchant, wolves), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 spite	case
2	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kept	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 weariness	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 weariness	nmod:poss
5	weariness	weariness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spite	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 howling	det
7	howling	howling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kept	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 wolves	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wolves	det
10	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 howling	nmod
11	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kept	obj
13	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kept	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 broke	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 broke	cc
16	even	even	ADV	_	22 broke	advmod
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 broke	advmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	21 day	case
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 day	amod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 broke	obl
22	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 kept	conj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 better	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 better	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADV	_	27 better	advmod
27	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 broke	ccomp
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 better	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 covered	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 covered	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 snow	det
32	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 snow	amod
33	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 covered	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 covered	aux
35	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 broke	parataxis
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 covered	compound:prt
37	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	38 path	det
38	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 covered	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 know	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 know	cc
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 know	nsubj
42	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 know	aux
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 know	advmod
44	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 kept	parataxis
45	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	46 way	det
46	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 know	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 turn	mark
48	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 way	acl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the howling of the wolves	merchant	spite of merchant's weariness		awake property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in spite=Location
2	break	past	the howling of the wolves not said here			day		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	merchant				good property	tree rules
4	fall	gerund						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cover up	past · perfect · passive		the falling snow				tree rules
6	not know	past · do-support	merchant	which way				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
7	turn	to-infinitive	merchant not said here	which way not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
8	spite			merchant's weariness				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
9	howl		the wolves					nom howling «communication intransitive»: of=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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