The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3, sentence 2

This, however, was not necessary; for, in a quarter of an hour's time, there grew up, all round about the park, such a vast number of trees, great and small, bushes and brambles, twining one within another, that neither man nor beast could pass thro'; so that nothing could be seen but the very top of the towers of the palace; and that too, not unless it was a good way off.

Who acts: This, man, that · What happens: not be, grow up, twine, pass, see · To what, where: one, thro, nothing, good way

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, man, that), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 necessary	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 necessary	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	7 necessary	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 necessary	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 necessary	advmod
7	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 quarter	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	13 quarter	case
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 quarter	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 quarter	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 quarter	det
13	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 necessary	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 time	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hour	det
16	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 time	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 hour	case
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 quarter	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grew	punct
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 grew	expl
21	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 necessary	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 grew	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 round	punct
24	all	all	ADV	_	25 round	advmod
25	round	round	ADV	_	21 grew	advmod
26	about	about	ADP	_	28 park	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 park	det
28	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grew	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 number	punct
30	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	33 number	det:predet
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 number	det
32	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 number	amod
33	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 park	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 trees	case
35	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 number	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 great	punct
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 park	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 small	cc
39	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 great	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 bushes	punct
41	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 park	conj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 brambles	cc
43	brambles	bramble	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 bushes	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 twining	punct
45	twining	twine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 grew	advcl
46	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 twining	obj
47	within	within	ADP	_	48 another	case
48	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	46 one	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 pass	punct
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	56 pass	mark
51	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	52 man	det
52	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 pass	nsubj
53	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	54 beast	cc
54	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 man	conj
55	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 pass	aux
56	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 twining	advcl
57	thro	thro	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 pass	obj
58	'	'	PUNCT	_	56 pass	punct
59	;	;	PUNCT	_	65 seen	punct
60	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	65 seen	mark
61	that	that	SCONJ	_	60 so	fixed
62	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	65 seen	nsubj:pass
63	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	65 seen	aux
64	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	65 seen	aux:pass
65	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 necessary	parataxis
66	but	but	CCONJ	_	69 top	cc
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 top	det
68	very	very	ADV	_	69 top	advmod
69	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 seen	conj
70	of	of	ADP	_	72 towers	case
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 towers	det
72	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	69 top	nmod
73	of	of	ADP	_	75 palace	case
74	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	75 palace	det
75	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 towers	nmod
76	;	;	PUNCT	_	87 way	punct
77	and	and	CCONJ	_	87 way	cc
78	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	87 way	nsubj
79	too	too	ADV	_	87 way	advmod
80	,	,	PUNCT	_	87 way	punct
81	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	87 way	advmod
82	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	87 way	mark
83	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	87 way	nsubj
84	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	87 way	cop
85	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	87 way	det
86	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	87 way	amod
87	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 top	conj
88	off	off	ADV	_	87 way	advmod
89	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 necessary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	This			however, necessary property	tree rules
2	grow up	past	This not said here		there	about the park and such vast number of trees and bushes and brambles; round property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about park=Location
3	twine	gerund	This not said here	one		within another	vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	pass	could	neither man nor beast	thro			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thro=Trajectory
5	see	could · passive		nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
6	not is a a condition, not said to happen	past	that	a good way		off property	tree rules

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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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