The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 84

The grass and briers were growing as high as if it were a hundred years since anyone had set foot there, but the Princess got through at last, though she gave herself a good many scratches by the way, and then she went into a dark, gloomy hall, where there was but one tiny hole in the wall through which the daylight could enter.

Who acts: grass, way, Princess, daylight · What happens: grow, be, set, get through, give, go · To what, where: hundred years, anyone, last, good many scratches, Princess, dark gloomy hall

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grass, way, Princess, daylight), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grass	det
2	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 growing	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 briers	cc
4	briers	brier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grass	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 growing	aux
6	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 high	advmod
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 growing	xcomp
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 years	mark
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 years	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 years	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 years	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 years	det
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 high	advcl
16	since	since	SCONJ	_	19 set	mark
17	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 set	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 set	aux
19	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 growing	advcl
20	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 set	obj
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 set	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 got	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 got	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Princess	det
25	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 got	nsubj
26	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 set	parataxis
27	through	through	ADV	_	26 got	advmod
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 last	case
29	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 got	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 gave	punct
31	though	though	SCONJ	_	33 gave	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 gave	nsubj
33	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 got	conj
34	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 gave	iobj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 scratches	det
36	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 scratches	amod
37	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 scratches	amod
38	scratches	scratch	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 gave	obj
39	by	by	ADP	_	41 way	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 way	det
41	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gave	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 went	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 went	cc
44	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	46 went	advmod
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 went	nsubj
46	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 gave	conj
47	into	into	ADP	_	52 hall	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 hall	det
49	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 hall	amod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 dark	punct
51	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 hall	amod
52	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 went	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 was	punct
54	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	56 was	advmod
55	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	56 was	expl
56	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 hole	cop
57	but	but	CCONJ	_	60 hole	cc
58	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	60 hole	nummod
59	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 hole	amod
60	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 hall	conj
61	in	in	ADP	_	63 wall	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 wall	det
63	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 hole	nmod
64	through	through	ADP	_	65 which	case
65	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	69 enter	obl
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 daylight	det
67	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 enter	nsubj
68	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	69 enter	aux
69	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 hole	parataxis
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 growing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · progressive	the grass and briers					high property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	way	a hundred years					tree rules
3	set	past · perfect · passive		anyone		there			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme foot=Destination
4	get through	past	the Princess			last		through property	vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	give	past	Princess	a good many scratches	Princess			by the way	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient scratch=Theme
6	go	past	Princess			a dark gloomy hall but one tiny hole	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial_Location
7	is a	past	Princess not said here	one tiny hole		the wall			tree rules
8	enter	could	the daylight			one tiny hole			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through which=Initial_Location

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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