The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 9

And when they looked round about them they became aware that they had slept quite close to a precipice, over which they would certainly have fallen had they gone on a few steps further in the darkness.

Who acts: roses · What happens: look round, become, sleep, fall, go

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roses), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 became	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 looked	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 became	advcl
5	round	round	ADV	_	4 looked	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 became	nsubj
9	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 became	xcomp
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 slept	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 slept	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 slept	aux
14	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 gone	advcl
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 close	advmod
16	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 slept	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 precipice	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 precipice	det
19	precipice	precipice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 close	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fallen	punct
21	over	over	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 fallen	obl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fallen	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 fallen	aux
25	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	27 fallen	advmod
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 fallen	aux
27	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 gone	advcl
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 gone	aux
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gone	nsubj
30	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 aware	ccomp
31	on	on	ADP	_	34 steps	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 steps	det
33	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 steps	amod
34	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 gone	obl
35	further	further	ADV	_	38 darkness	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 darkness	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 darkness	det
38	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 steps	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look round	past	roses = rose	about woods = wood; round property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about they=Theme
2	become	past	roses = rose	aware property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	sleep	past · perfect	roses = rose	close property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fall	would · perfect	roses = rose	certainly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over which=Location
5	go	past · perfect	roses = rose	on a few steps in the darkness	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on step=Location

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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