The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 53
But when they got into the wood it was so crowded, and the trees so close together, that they could scarcely get forward.
Who acts: woods, care · What happens: get, be · To what, where: wood
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woods, care), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 got | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 wood | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wood | det |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 crowded | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 crowded | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 crowded | advmod |
| 11 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 trees | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trees | det |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | conj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 close | advmod |
| 17 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 got | advmod |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 get | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 get | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 get | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 get | aux |
| 23 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 24 get | advmod |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 got | parataxis |
| 25 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 24 get | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | woods = wood | the wood | close, together property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into wood=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | care | crowded property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | could | woods = wood | forward, scarcely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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