The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 24

At the last little village he left his horse behind him, to begin his toilful march through the snow, which extended, blank and terrible, in every direction as far as the eye could see.

Who acts: Mannikin, snow, eye · What happens: leave, begin, extend, see · To what, where: horse, last little village, toilful march, snow

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (Mannikin, snow, eye), 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	At	at	ADP	_	5 village	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 village	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 village	amod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 village	amod
5	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 left	nsubj
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 horse	nmod:poss
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obj
10	behind	behind	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 left	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 begin	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 begin	mark
14	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 left	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 march	nmod:poss
16	toilful	toilful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 march	amod
17	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 begin	obj
18	through	through	ADP	_	20 snow	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 snow	det
20	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 begin	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 extended	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 extended	nsubj
23	extended	extend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 snow	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 blank	punct
25	blank	blank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 extended	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 terrible	cc
27	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 blank	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 direction	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 direction	case
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 direction	det
31	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 begin	parataxis
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 far	advmod
33	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 direction	advmod
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 see	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 eye	det
36	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 see	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 see	aux
38	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 far	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past	Mannikin	Mannikin's horse	the last little village	behind horse	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme at village=Location
2	begin	to-infinitive	Mannikin not said here	Mannikin's toilful march	the snow		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent march=Eventuality
3	extend	past	the snow				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	could	the eye				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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