The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 143

They had never been so far in the great wood before, they could not find any road nor path, and soon the girls noticed that they had lost their way.

Who acts: baskets, girls · What happens: not be, not find, notice, lose · To what, where: great wood, road, way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (baskets, girls), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 find	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 find	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 far	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 far	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 find	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 wood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wood	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wood	amod
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 far	obl
11	before	before	ADV	_	10 wood	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 far	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 find	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 find	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 find	advmod
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 road	det
18	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 find	obj
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	20 path	cc
20	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 road	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 noticed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 noticed	cc
23	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 noticed	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 girls	det
25	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 noticed	nsubj
26	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 find	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 lost	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 lost	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 lost	aux
30	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 noticed	ccomp
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 way	nmod:poss
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lost	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	participle			the great wood	far property	tree rules
2	not find	could · past	baskets = basket	any road nor path			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Topic
3	notice	past	the girls			soon property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	lose	past · perfect	baskets = basket	baskets's way			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality

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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