The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 107

He quickly unfastened the cord to get loose from the big sledge, but it was of no use; his little sledge hung on fast, and it went on like the wind.

Who acts: snow, cord · What happens: unfasten, get, be, hang, go on · To what, where: cord, little sledge, fast

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 (snow, cord), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 unfastened	nsubj
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 unfastened	advmod
3	unfastened	unfasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cord	det
5	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 unfastened	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 unfastened	advcl
8	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 sledge	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sledge	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sledge	amod
12	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 loose	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 use	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 use	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 use	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 use	cop
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 use	case
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 use	det
19	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 unfastened	advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 sledge	punct
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 sledge	nmod:poss
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sledge	amod
23	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 use	conj
24	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 sledge	acl
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 fast	case
26	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hung	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 went	cc
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 went	nsubj
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 unfastened	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	30 went	compound:prt
32	like	like	ADP	_	34 wind	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wind	det
34	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 went	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 unfastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	unfasten	past	snow	the cord		quickly property	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Patient
2	get	to-infinitive	snow not said here			loose property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	cord			of no use and snow's little sledge	tree rules
4	hang	participle		snow's little sledge not said here	fast		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on fast=Location
5	go on	past	cord			like the wind	vn function-105.2.1 «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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