The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 22

Then they went their way deeper into the wood, and in the middle of it, where it was thickest and darkest, they came upon a little enchanted house which stood empty.

Who acts: hands, way, thickest, little enchanted house · What happens: go, be, come, enchant, stand · To what, where: way, middle

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands, way, thickest, little enchanted house), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 way	nmod:poss
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obj
6	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 went	xcomp
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 wood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wood	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deeper	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 came	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 middle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 middle	det
14	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 middle	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thickest	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 thickest	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thickest	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thickest	cop
21	thickest	thick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 came	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 darkest	cc
23	darkest	dark	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 thickest	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 house	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 house	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 house	amod
30	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 house	amod
31	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 stood	nsubj
33	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 house	acl:relcl
34	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 stood	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	hands = hand	hands's way		then	deep property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	is	past	way				thick property	tree rules
3	be		way not said here					tree rules
4	come	past	thickest		the middle of middle		upon a little enchanted house	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location
5	enchant	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	stand	past	a little enchanted house				empty property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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