The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 146

The girls became anxious but went steadily on, expecting that the wood would soon end, and that they would see the smoke from the chimneys of their home.

Who acts: girls, wood, birds · What happens: become, go, expect, end, see · To what, where: smoke, chimneys

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, wood, birds), 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 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 became	xcomp
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	conj
7	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	on	on	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 expecting	punct
10	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 went	advcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 end	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wood	det
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 end	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 end	aux
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 end	advmod
16	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 expecting	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 see	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 see	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 became	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 smoke	det
24	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 chimneys	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 chimneys	det
27	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 see	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 home	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 home	nmod:poss
30	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 chimneys	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	the girls			anxious property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	go	past	the girls not said here			steadily property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	expect	gerund	the girls not said here				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	end	would	the wood			soon property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	see	would	birds = bird	the smoke	the chimneys of birds's home		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smoke=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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