The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 75

How long he might have been walking there he never could have told you, when at last he reached the mouth of a cave where the darkness seemed a hundred times darker than the wood itself.

Who acts: child, darkness · What happens: walk, not tell, reach, seem · To what, where: you, mouth, last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, darkness), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 walking	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 walking	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 walking	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 walking	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 walking	aux
7	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 walking	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 told	advmod
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 told	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	aux
13	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 walking	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 reached	punct
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 reached	mark
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reached	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 reached	nsubj
20	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 told	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mouth	det
22	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reached	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 cave	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cave	det
25	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mouth	nmod
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 seemed	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 darkness	det
28	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 seemed	nsubj
29	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 cave	acl:relcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 hundred	det
31	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 times	nummod
32	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 darker	obl:unmarked
33	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 seemed	xcomp
34	than	than	ADP	_	36 wood	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 wood	det
36	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 darker	obl
37	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	36 wood	nmod:unmarked
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 walking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	might · perfect · progressive	child			there	long property	tree rules
2	not tell speech: assert	could · perfect	child		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	reach	past	child	the mouth of a cave		last		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme at last=Asset
4	seem	past	the darkness				dark property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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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