The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 96

They did not want to sleep in the wood, for they were afraid of wolves and other wild beasts, so they groped their way along, hand in hand, till the prince tripped over something which lay across the path.

Who acts: courtiers, prince · What happens: not want, sleep, be, grope, trip, lie · To what, where: wood, way, something, path

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courtiers, prince), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sleep	mark
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 wood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wood	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sleep	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 afraid	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 afraid	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 afraid	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 afraid	cop
14	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 want	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 wolves	case
16	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 afraid	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 beasts	cc
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 beasts	amod
19	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 beasts	amod
20	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wolves	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 groped	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 groped	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 groped	nsubj
24	groped	grope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 afraid	conj
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 way	nmod:poss
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 groped	obj
27	along	along	ADV	_	24 groped	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hand	punct
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 groped	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 hand	case
31	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hand	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 tripped	punct
33	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 tripped	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 prince	det
35	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tripped	nsubj
36	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 groped	conj
37	over	over	ADP	_	38 something	case
38	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	36 tripped	obl
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 lay	nsubj
40	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 something	acl:relcl
41	across	across	ADP	_	43 path	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 path	det
43	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lay	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	courtiers = courtier				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sleep not said to happen	to-infinitive	courtiers = courtier not said here		the wood		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location
3	is	past	courtiers = courtier			of wolves and other wild beasts; afraid property	tree rules
4	grope	past	courtiers = courtier	courtiers's way		hand in hand obl; along property	vn touch-20 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Experiencer
5	trip	past	the prince		something		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over something=Trajectory
6	lie	past			the path		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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