The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 86
By the time they reached the Pig’s dwelling, which stood in a thick wood, it was quite dark.
Who acts: words, wood · What happens: reach, dwell, stand, be · To what, where: thick wood
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, wood), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Pig | det |
| 7 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ’s | nsubj |
| 8 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | ccomp |
| 9 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 ’s | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dwelling | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 wood | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wood | det |
| 15 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wood | amod |
| 16 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dark | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 dark | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 dark | cop |
| 20 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 21 dark | advmod |
| 21 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stood | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | words = word | time | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dwell | gerund | words = word not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | a thick wood | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location | |||||
| 4 | is | past | wood | dark property | tree rules |
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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