The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 20

But when they got there they found that there was no way in which they could cross it, and the girl’s magic art seemed no longer to have any power.

Who acts: fugitives, way, magic art · What happens: get, find, be, cross, seem, have · To what, where: way, power · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fugitives, way, magic art), 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	_	7 found	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 got	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	advcl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 got	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 was	mark
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	ccomp
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 cross	obl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cross	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 cross	aux
17	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 way	acl:relcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cross	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seemed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 seemed	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 girl	det
22	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 art	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 girl	case
24	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 art	compound
25	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seemed	nsubj
26	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	conj
27	no	no	ADV	_	28 longer	advmod
28	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 seemed	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 have	mark
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 seemed	xcomp
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 power	det
32	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	fugitives = fugitive		there		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	find	past	fugitives = fugitive				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	be	past	no way		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cross	could	fugitives = fugitive	way		in no way	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Patient in which=Topic
5	seem	past	the girl's magic art			long property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	have	to-infinitive	the girl's magic art not said here	any power			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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