Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 34

The way gradually grew thicker of brushwood, as they rode along, till at last it became a trackless wilderness.

Who acts: way, bound · What happens: grow, ride along, become · To what, where: trackless wilderness, last

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, 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 (way, bound), 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 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	nsubj
3	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	4 grew	advmod
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grew	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 brushwood	case
7	brushwood	brushwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thicker	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rode	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 rode	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 rode	nsubj
11	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
12	along	along	ADV	_	11 rode	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 became	punct
14	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 became	mark
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 became	obl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 became	nsubj
18	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 rode	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 wilderness	det
20	trackless	trackless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wilderness	amod
21	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 became	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the way			gradually, thick property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ride along	past	bound			along property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	become	past	way	a trackless wilderness	last		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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