The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 67

The horses ploughed their way slowly through the deep soft snow and as they went Hans kept turning to look at the sun, which lay at their backs.

Who acts: horses, Hans, sun · What happens: plough, go, keep, turn, look, lay · To what, where: way, deep soft snow, backs

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 (horses, Hans, sun), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horses	det
2	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ploughed	nsubj
3	ploughed	plough	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 way	nmod:poss
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ploughed	obj
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 ploughed	advmod
7	through	through	ADP	_	11 snow	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 snow	det
9	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 snow	amod
10	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 snow	amod
11	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ploughed	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 went	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ploughed	conj
16	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 kept	nsubj
17	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 went	ccomp
18	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 kept	xcomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 look	mark
20	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 turning	xcomp
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 sun	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sun	det
23	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 look	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lay	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 lay	nsubj
26	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 sun	acl:relcl
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 backs	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 backs	nmod:poss
29	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lay	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ploughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	plough	past	the horses	horses's way	the deep soft snow	slowly property	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent way=Initial_Location
2	go	past	horses = horse				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	keep	past	Hans				tree rules
4	turn	gerund	Hans not said here				tree rules
5	look	to-infinitive	Hans not said here			at the sun	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sun=Theme
6	lay	present	the sun		Hans's backs		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at back=Destination

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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