The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 17

They went into a very thick forest, where they could not see one another at ten paces distance.

Who acts: pockets · What happens: go, not see · To what, where: thick forest, one

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pockets), 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	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	7 forest	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 forest	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 thick	advmod
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 forest	amod
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 see	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 see	advmod
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	conj
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 see	obj
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 one	fixed
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 distance	case
17	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 paces	nummod
18	paces	pace	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 distance	compound
19	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 see	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	pockets = pocket			a thick forest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
2	not see	could	pockets = pocket	one				at paces distance	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=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 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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