The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 36

So they went there again, and there the grass was, standing as high and as thick as it had been before, but that did not make them any kinder to Cinderlad.

Who acts: sons, grass, that · What happens: go, stand, be, not make · To what, where: sons

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, grass, that), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 standing	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 standing	cc
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 standing	expl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grass	det
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 standing	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 standing	aux
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 standing	punct
13	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 high	case
15	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 standing	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thick	cc
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 thick	advmod
18	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 high	conj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 before	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 before	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 before	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 before	cop
23	before	before	ADV	_	18 thick	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 make	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 make	cc
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 make	nsubj
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 make	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 make	advmod
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 make	obj
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 kinder	det
32	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 make	xcomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 Cinderlad	case
34	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 kinder	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	sons = son		there	again		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	past · progressive	the grass		there		as high	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past · perfect	grass				before property	tree rules
4	not make	past · do-support	that	sons = son			kind property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/36/