The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 94

Now the women had no idea in which direction the lost birds had gone, but they knew that some distance off was a thick forest, where good hunting was to be found.

Who acts: women, lost birds, woman, distance · What happens: have, lose, go, know, be, find · To what, where: idea, direction, thick forest, good hunting · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, lost birds, woman, distance), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 women	det
3	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 idea	det
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 direction	case
8	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	9 direction	det
9	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 idea	nmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 birds	det
11	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 birds	amod
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gone	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	aux
14	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 direction	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knew	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 knew	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 knew	nsubj
18	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	parataxis
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 forest	mark
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 distance	det
21	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 forest	nsubj
22	off	off	ADP	_	21 distance	compound:prt
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 forest	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 forest	det
25	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 forest	amod
26	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 knew	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 found	punct
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 found	advmod
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hunting	amod
30	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 found	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 found	aux:pass
32	to	to	PART	_	34 found	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 found	aux:pass
34	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 forest	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	past	the women	no idea	which direction	now	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
2	lose	participle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	past · perfect	the lost birds	which direction not said here			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location direction=Theme
4	know	past	woman				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	some distance	a thick forest			tree rules
6	find	past · passive	woman not said here	good hunting			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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