The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 79

With the earliest dawn they were on their way, and though the Mice were in constant fear of being overtaken or trapped, they reached the Golden Branch in safety.

Who acts: earliest dawn, Mice, speeches · What happens: be, overtake, trap, reach · To what, where: way, constant fear, Golden Branch, safety

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earliest dawn, Mice, speeches), 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 dawn	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dawn	det
3	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 dawn	amod
4	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 way	nsubj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 way	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 way	cop
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 way	nmod:poss
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 reached	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 reached	cc
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 fear	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Mice	det
14	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fear	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fear	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 fear	case
17	constant	constant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fear	amod
18	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reached	advcl
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 overtaken	mark
20	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 overtaken	aux:pass
21	overtaken	overtake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 fear	acl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 trapped	cc
23	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 overtaken	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fear	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 reached	nsubj
26	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 way	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Branch	det
28	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Branch	amod
29	Branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reached	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 safety	case
31	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reached	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is	past	the earliest dawn		speeches's way	tree rules
2	is	past	the Mice		constant fear	tree rules
3	overtake	gerund · passive		constant fear not said here		tree rules
4	trap	participle				vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	reach	past	speeches = speech	the Golden Branch	safety	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent branch=Theme

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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