The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 28

When they reached the forest they dismounted, for the trees grew so thickly that the horses could not pass, and made their way on foot to the hollow tree where the hermit lived.

Who acts: misfortunes, trees, horses, hermit · What happens: reach, dismount, grow, not pass, make, live · To what, where: forest, way, foot

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (misfortunes, trees, horses, hermit), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dismounted	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 forest	det
5	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dismounted	nsubj
7	dismounted	dismount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grew	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 grew	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grew	nsubj
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dismounted	conj
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 thickly	advmod
14	thickly	thickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grew	xcomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 pass	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 horses	det
17	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 pass	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 pass	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 pass	advmod
20	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 thickly	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 made	cc
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dismounted	conj
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 way	nmod:poss
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 foot	case
27	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 tree	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 tree	det
30	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tree	amod
31	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obl
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 lived	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 hermit	det
34	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lived	nsubj
35	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tree	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dismounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	misfortunes = misfortune	the forest			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent forest=Theme
2	dismount	past	misfortunes = misfortune				vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	grow	past	the trees			thickly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not pass	could	the horses				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make	past	misfortunes = misfortune not said here	horses's way	foot	to the hollow tree	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product
6	live	past	the hermit				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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