The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 16

But the Grandmother lived in another village, and there was a big wood to cross before getting there.

Who acts: Grandmother · What happens: live, be, cross, get · To what, where: village, big wood

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grandmother), 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 lived	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Grandmother	det
3	Grandmother	Grandmother	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 village	case
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 village	det
7	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wood	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 was	cc
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 was	expl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wood	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wood	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wood	amod
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 cross	mark
16	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wood	acl
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 getting	mark
18	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 cross	advcl
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 getting	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	live	past	the Grandmother		another village	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location
2	is a	past		a big wood		tree rules
3	cross	to-infinitive	the Grandmother not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get	gerund	the Grandmother not said here		there	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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