The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 2

They came at last to a dark wood, but the coach lit it up like a torch.

Who acts: wings, coach · What happens: come, light up · To what, where: last, wood

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wings, coach), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 last	case
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 wood	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wood	det
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wood	amod
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 last	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lit	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 lit	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 coach	det
12	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lit	nsubj
13	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lit	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 lit	compound:prt
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 torch	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 torch	det
18	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lit	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	wings = wing			last			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
2	light up	past	the coach	wood				like a torch	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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