The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 128
The girls climbed well in their short dresses, and soon they were deep in the wood.
Who acts: girls, midges · What happens: climb, be · To what, where: short dresses, wood
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, midges), 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 girls | det |
| 2 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 climbed | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 dresses | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dresses | nmod:poss |
| 7 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dresses | amod |
| 8 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 climbed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wood | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wood | cc |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 wood | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wood | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wood | cop |
| 14 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 17 wood | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 wood | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wood | det |
| 17 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | the girls | midges's short dresses | well property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dress=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | is | past | midges = midge | the wood | deep, soon 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 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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