The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 97

Towards morning a dense damp fog lay over the whole neighbourhood; later on came an icy wind, which sent the frost packing.

Who acts: dense damp fog, icy wind · What happens: lie, come, send · To what, where: whole neighbourhood, frost packing

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dense damp fog, icy wind), 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	Towards	toward	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 morning	compound
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl:unmarked
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fog	det
4	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fog	amod
5	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fog	amod
6	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	nsubj
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	over	over	ADP	_	11 neighbourhood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 neighbourhood	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 neighbourhood	amod
11	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
13	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 came	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	13 later	compound:prt
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lay	conj
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wind	det
17	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wind	amod
18	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sent	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 sent	nsubj
21	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wind	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 packing	det
23	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 packing	compound
24	packing	packing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sent	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	a dense damp fog		the whole neighbourhood	morning		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over neighbourhood=Location
2	come	past	a icy wind				late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	send	past	a icy wind	the frost packing				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent packing=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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