The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 85

What with the winter and bad roads they took longer to return than they had taken to go, but in the end they found themselves in sight of the forest where they had slept before.

Who acts: roads · What happens: take, return, go, find, sleep, sight · To what, where: bad roads, roads, end, forest

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roads), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 winter	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 winter	det
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 roads	cc
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 roads	amod
7	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 winter	conj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 roads	acl:relcl
10	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 took	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 return	mark
12	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 took	advcl
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 taken	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 taken	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 taken	aux
16	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 return	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 go	mark
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 taken	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 found	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 end	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 end	det
23	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 found	obl
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 found	nsubj
25	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 found	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 sight	case
28	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 found	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 forest	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 forest	det
31	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sight	nmod
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 slept	advmod
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 slept	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 slept	aux
35	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 forest	acl:relcl
36	before	before	ADV	_	35 slept	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	roads = road	bad roads not said here		long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme
2	return	to-infinitive	roads = road not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	past · perfect	roads = road				vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
4	go	to-infinitive	roads = road not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	find	past	roads = road	roads = road	in the end	in sight of the forest	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic
6	sleep	past · perfect	roads = road			before property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	sight			the forest			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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