The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 20

At last, when it grew dark, she saw the little light, and came to the house in the wood.

Who acts: way, maiden · What happens: grow, see, come · To what, where: last, little light, wood

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, maiden), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grew	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grew	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 grew	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grew	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grew	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 light	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 light	amod
13	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saw	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 house	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 house	det
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 wood	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wood	det
22	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	way		last	dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
2	see	past	maiden	the little light			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
3	come	past	maiden not said here		the wood	to the house	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=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 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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