The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 73
But when they got into the wood it was still thicker than the silver wood, and the farther they got into it the worse it grew.
Who acts: leaves, care · What happens: get, be, grow · To what, where: wood, care
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 (leaves, 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 | _ | 21 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 | 21 got | advcl |
| 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 thicker | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thicker | cop |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 thicker | advmod |
| 11 | thicker | thick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 got | parataxis |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 wood | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wood | det |
| 14 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wood | compound |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thicker | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 farther | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 farther | det |
| 19 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 got | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 got | nsubj |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 got | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 worse | det |
| 25 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 got | xcomp |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 grew | nsubj |
| 27 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 worse | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | leaves = leaf | the wood | far property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into wood=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | care | still | than the silver wood; thick property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | get | past | leaves = leaf | care | bad property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination | |||
| 4 | grow | past | care | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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