The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 65

But when they had left the village behind them, and had ridden a few miles, they found that snow had fallen during the night, and had been blown by the wind into drifts.

Who acts: Hans, snow, wind · What happens: leave, ride, find, fall, blow · To what, where: village, few miles, drifts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, snow, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 left	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 left	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 village	det
7	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obj
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 village	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ridden	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ridden	cc
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ridden	aux
13	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 left	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 miles	det
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 miles	amod
16	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ridden	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	nsubj
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 fallen	mark
21	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fallen	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fallen	aux
23	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 found	ccomp
24	during	during	ADP	_	26 night	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 night	det
26	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fallen	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 blown	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 blown	cc
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 blown	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 blown	aux:pass
31	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 found	conj
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 wind	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wind	det
34	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 blown	obl
35	into	into	ADP	_	36 drifts	case
36	drifts	drift	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 blown	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · perfect	Hans = han	the village			behind breakfast	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent village=Theme behind they=Location
2	ride	past · perfect	Hans = han not said here	a few miles				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Theme
3	find	past	Hans = han					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	fall	past · perfect	snow			night		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	blow	past · perfect · passive	the wind		drifts			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into drift=Product

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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