The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 44
They did go, and this time too the grass was standing, looking as fine and as thick as ever.
Who acts: others, grass · What happens: go, stand, look · To what, where: time
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 (others, grass), 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 | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 time | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 time | cc |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 time | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 grass | det |
| 10 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 standing | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 standing | aux |
| 12 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 time | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looking | punct |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 standing | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 fine | case |
| 16 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 looking | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 thick | cc |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 thick | advmod |
| 19 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fine | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 ever | case |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 thick | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · do-support | others = other | time | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | the grass | this time not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | the grass not said here | as fine | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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