The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 6
At length, towards evening, the mass of trees grew more transparent, and through the interlaced branches a wide plain was visible.
Who acts: mass, wide plain · What happens: grow, interlace, be · To what, where: length, interlaced branches
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (mass, wide plain), 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 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grew | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 evening | punct |
| 4 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 5 evening | case |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 length | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mass | det |
| 8 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 trees | case |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mass | nmod |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 transparent | advmod |
| 13 | transparent | transparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grew | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 visible | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 visible | cc |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 branches | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 branches | det |
| 18 | interlaced | interlace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 branches | amod |
| 19 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 visible | obl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 plain | det |
| 21 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 plain | amod |
| 22 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 visible | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 visible | cop |
| 24 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grew | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the mass of trees | length | transparent property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location | |||
| 2 | interlace | participle | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | a wide plain | the interlaced branches | visible property | tree rules |
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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