The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 2

It was not many miles off, but the snow was so thick that there were no roads, or walls, or hedges left to guide him, and very soon he lost his way altogether, and was glad to get shelter from the wind behind a thick juniper tree.

Who acts: village, snow, roads, man · What happens: be, leave, guide, lose, get · To what, where: hedges, man, way, shelter, wind

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (village, snow, roads, man), 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	6 off	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 off	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 miles	amod
5	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 off	obl:unmarked
6	off	off	ADV	_	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thick	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 thick	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 snow	det
10	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thick	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thick	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 thick	advmod
13	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 off	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 were	mark
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 were	expl
16	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thick	advcl
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 roads	det
18	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 were	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 walls	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 walls	cc
21	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 roads	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hedges	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 hedges	cc
24	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 roads	conj
25	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 hedges	acl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 guide	mark
27	guide	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 left	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 guide	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 lost	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 lost	cc
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 soon	advmod
32	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 lost	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 lost	nsubj
34	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thick	conj
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 way	nmod:poss
36	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lost	obj
37	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	34 lost	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 glad	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 glad	cc
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 glad	cop
41	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thick	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 get	mark
43	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 glad	advcl
44	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 get	obj
45	from	from	ADP	_	47 wind	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 wind	det
47	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 get	obl
48	behind	behind	ADP	_	52 tree	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 tree	det
50	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 tree	amod
51	juniper	juniper	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 tree	compound
52	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 wind	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 off	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	village			many miles obl:unmarked; off property	tree rules
2	is	past	the snow			thick property	tree rules
3	be	past	no roads or walls or hedges		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leave	participle		hedges not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	guide	to-infinitive		man			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	lose	past	man	man's way		altogether, soon property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
7	is	past	the snow not said here			glad property	tree rules
8	get	to-infinitive	the snow not said here	shelter	the wind behind a thick juniper tree		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme from wind=Source

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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