The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 106

Then they drove out of the town, and the snow began to fall so thickly that the little boy could not see his hand before him, and on and on they went.

Who acts: Kay, snow, little boy · What happens: drive out, begin, fall, not see, go · To what, where: town, hand

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, snow, little boy), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 drove	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drove	nsubj
3	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 town	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 town	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 snow	det
11	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 fall	mark
14	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 thickly	advmod
16	thickly	thickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fall	xcomp
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 see	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boy	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 boy	amod
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 see	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 see	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 see	advmod
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 thickly	advcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hand	nmod:poss
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 see	obj
26	before	before	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 see	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 on	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 on	cc
30	on	on	ADV	_	12 began	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 went	cc
32	on	on	SCONJ	_	34 went	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 went	nsubj
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 on	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	drive out	past	Kay	the town	then		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme town=Trajectory
2	begin	past	the snow				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	fall	to-infinitive	the snow not said here			thickly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not see	could	the little boy	boy's hand	before snow		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus
5	go	past	Kay				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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