The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 72

The road was hilly and neither could go very fast, and when night fell, they were both glad to see some lights in a window a little distance in front of them.

Who acts: road, night, onions · What happens: be, fall, see · To what, where: lights, window

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, night, onions), 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 road	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	nsubj:outer
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 go	cop
4	hilly	hilly	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 go	cc
6	neither	neither	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 fast	advmod
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 go	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 glad	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 glad	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 fell	advmod
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fell	nsubj
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 glad	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fell	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 glad	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 glad	cop
19	both	both	ADV	_	20 glad	advmod
20	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 go	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 see	mark
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 glad	xcomp
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 lights	det
24	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 see	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 window	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 window	det
27	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 distance	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 distance	amod
30	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 front	case
32	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 distance	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 front	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	could · past	the road			fast, go, hilly, neither property	tree rules
2	fall	past	night				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	onions = onion			both, glad property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	onions = onion not said here	some lights	a window	a little distance in front of onions obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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