The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 51

They were now in great affliction, for the farther they went the more they were out of their way, and were more and more bewildered in the forest.

Who acts: birds · What happens: be, go, bewilder · To what, where: great affliction, way, forest

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 (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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 affliction	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 affliction	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 affliction	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 affliction	case
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 affliction	amod
6	affliction	affliction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 went	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 farther	det
10	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 went	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 affliction	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 more	det
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 went	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 way	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 way	cop
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 way	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 way	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 way	nmod:poss
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 more	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bewildered	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bewildered	cc
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 bewildered	aux
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 bewildered	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bewildered	cc
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 bewildered	advmod
27	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 went	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 forest	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 forest	det
30	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bewildered	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 affliction	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	birds = bird	great affliction	now		tree rules
2	go	past	birds = bird			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	birds = bird	birds's way			tree rules
4	bewilder	past · passive	birds = bird not said here	the forest			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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