The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 41

This, however, was not necessary, for in a quarter of an hour’s time there grew up all round about the park such a vast number of trees, great and small, bushes and brambles, twining one within another, that neither man nor beast could pass through; so that nothing could be seen but the very top of the towers of the palace; and that, too, not unless it was a good way off.

Who acts: This, quarter, man · What happens: not be, grow up, twine, pass through, see · To what, where: one, nothing, good way

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, quarter, man), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 necessary	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 This	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	7 necessary	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 necessary	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 necessary	advmod
7	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 quarter	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 quarter	case
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 quarter	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 quarter	det
12	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grew	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 time	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hour	det
15	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 time	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 hour	case
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 quarter	nmod
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 grew	advmod
19	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 necessary	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 grew	compound:prt
21	all	all	ADV	_	22 round	advmod
22	round	round	ADV	_	19 grew	advmod
23	about	about	ADP	_	25 park	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 park	det
25	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grew	obl
26	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	29 number	det:predet
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 number	det
28	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 number	amod
29	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 park	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 trees	case
31	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 number	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 great	punct
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 number	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 small	cc
35	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 great	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 bushes	punct
37	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 park	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 brambles	cc
39	brambles	bramble	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 bushes	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 twining	punct
41	twining	twine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 grew	advcl
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 twining	obj
43	within	within	ADP	_	44 another	case
44	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	42 one	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 pass	punct
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 pass	mark
47	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	48 man	det
48	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 pass	nsubj
49	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	50 beast	cc
50	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 man	conj
51	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 pass	aux
52	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 twining	advcl
53	through	through	ADP	_	52 pass	compound:prt
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	60 seen	punct
55	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	60 seen	mark
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 so	fixed
57	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	60 seen	nsubj:pass
58	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 seen	aux
59	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	60 seen	aux:pass
60	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 necessary	parataxis
61	but	but	CCONJ	_	64 top	cc
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 top	det
63	very	very	ADV	_	64 top	advmod
64	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 seen	conj
65	of	of	ADP	_	67 towers	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 towers	det
67	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 top	nmod
68	of	of	ADP	_	70 palace	case
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 palace	det
70	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 towers	nmod
71	;	;	PUNCT	_	73 that	punct
72	and	and	CCONJ	_	73 that	cc
73	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 necessary	obl
74	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 that	punct
75	too	too	ADV	_	7 necessary	advmod
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	83 way	punct
77	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	83 way	advmod
78	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	83 way	mark
79	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	83 way	nsubj
80	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	83 way	cop
81	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	83 way	det
82	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	83 way	amod
83	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 necessary	conj
84	off	off	ADV	_	83 way	advmod
85	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 necessary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	This			that obl; however, necessary property	tree rules
2	grow up	past	a quarter of a hour's time		there	about the park and such vast number of trees and bushes and brambles; round property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about park=Location
3	twine	gerund	a quarter of a hour's time not said here	one		within another	vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	pass through	could	neither man nor beast				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	could · passive		nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
6	not is a a condition, not said to happen	past	quarter	a good way		off 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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