The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 21

But at last the snows melted, and the ice upon the great lake, and as the wolves went down to the shore, the boy went after them.

Who acts: last, wolves, boy · What happens: melt, go down, go · To what, where: ice

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, wolves, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 melted	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 melted	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snows	det
5	snows	snow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 last	nsubj
6	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ice	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ice	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ice	det
10	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 melted	obl
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 lake	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lake	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lake	amod
14	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ice	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 went	cc
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 went	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wolves	det
19	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 melted	parataxis
21	down	down	ADV	_	20 went	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 shore	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 shore	det
24	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 boy	det
27	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	nsubj
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 went	conj
29	after	after	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 melted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	melt	past	last	the ice upon the great lake			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	go down	past	the wolves			to the shore; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	go	past	the boy		after wolves = wolf		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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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