The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 35

The two girls, light of heart, now took their berries and ran off through the wood after the bird; and soon it began to get lighter in the wood and they wondered how they could have lost their way yesterday, it seemed so easy and plain now.

Who acts: two girls, wood, girls, it · What happens: take, run off, begin, get, wonder, lose · To what, where: berries, wood, way, heart · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two girls, wood, girls, it), 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	3 girls	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 girls	nummod
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 took	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 light	punct
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 girls	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 heart	case
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 light	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 girls	punct
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 took	advmod
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 berries	nmod:poss
12	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 took	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ran	cc
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 ran	compound:prt
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 wood	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wood	det
18	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ran	obl
19	after	after	ADP	_	21 bird	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bird	det
21	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ran	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 began	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 began	cc
24	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 began	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 began	nsubj
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	parataxis
27	to	to	PART	_	28 get	mark
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 began	xcomp
29	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 get	xcomp
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 wood	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wood	det
32	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lighter	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 wondered	cc
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 wondered	nsubj
35	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 began	conj
36	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	40 lost	advmod
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 lost	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 lost	aux
39	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 lost	aux
40	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 wondered	ccomp
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 way	nmod:poss
42	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lost	obj
43	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lost	obl:unmarked
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 seemed	punct
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 seemed	nsubj
46	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	parataxis
47	so	so	ADV	_	48 easy	advmod
48	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 seemed	xcomp
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 plain	cc
50	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 easy	conj
51	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	46 seemed	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the two girls and light of heart	girls's berries		now		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme
2	run off	past	the two girls and light of heart not said here		the wood	after the bird		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory
3	begin	past	wood				soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	get	to-infinitive	wood not said here				light property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	wonder speech: ask	past	girls = girl					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	lose	could · perfect	girls = girl	girls's way		yesterday		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
7	seem	past	it			now	easy property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
8	light			heart				nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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