The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 147
After they had wandered on for a long time it began to grow dark.
Who acts: birds, wood · What happens: wander, begin, grow · To what, where: long time
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 (birds, wood), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 wandered | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wandered | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wandered | aux |
| 4 | wandered | wander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wandered | obl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 time | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 grow | mark |
| 13 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grow | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past · perfect | birds = bird | time | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | wood | a long time not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | to-infinitive | wood not said here | dark property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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