The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 7

It blew so hard and rained so heavily that he could scarcely keep his eyes open, and before he was aware of it he had got quite out of the track, and could neither find road nor path.

Who acts: storm, husbandman · What happens: blow, rain, keep, be, get, find · To what, where: eyes, track, road

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm, husbandman), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blew	nsubj
2	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 hard	advmod
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 blew	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rained	cc
6	rained	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 blew	conj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 heavily	advmod
8	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	6 rained	advmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 keep	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 keep	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 keep	aux
12	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	13 keep	advmod
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 rained	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eyes	nmod:poss
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 keep	obj
16	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 keep	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 got	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 got	cc
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 aware	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 aware	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 aware	cop
22	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 got	advcl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 aware	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 got	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 got	aux
27	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 blew	parataxis
28	quite	quite	ADV	_	32 track	advmod
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 track	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 track	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 track	det
32	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 got	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 find	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 find	cc
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 find	aux
36	neither	neither	ADV	_	37 find	advmod
37	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 got	advcl
38	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 find	obj
39	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	40 path	cc
40	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 road	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	blow	past	storm			hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	rain	past	storm not said here			heavily property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3	keep	could	husbandman	husbandman's eyes		open, scarcely property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
4	is	past	husbandman			of storm; aware property	tree rules
5	get	past · perfect	husbandman		the track		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme out track=Destination
6	find	could	husbandman not said here	road nor path		neither property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Topic

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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