The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 9

By this time they were far away from any house, and thought it was high time to be making their way home again, but they found they had got lost now.

Who acts: horses, darkness · What happens: be, think, make, find, get, lose · To what, where: house, high time, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses, darkness), 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	7 away	mark
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 away	obl:unmarked
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 away	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 away	cop
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 away	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thought	cc
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 away	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 time	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 time	cop
16	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thought	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	20 making	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 making	aux
20	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 time	advcl
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 way	nmod:poss
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 making	obj
23	home	home	ADV	_	20 making	advmod
24	again	again	ADV	_	20 making	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 found	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 found	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 found	nsubj
28	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thought	conj
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 got	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 got	aux
31	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 found	ccomp
32	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 got	xcomp
33	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 lost	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 away	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	horses = horse		any house	time	away, far property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	darkness	high time				tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive · progressive	darkness not said here	horses's way		again	home property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product
5	find	past	horses = horse					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	get	past · perfect	horses = horse					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	lose	participle	horses = horse not said here			now		vn succeed-74-3-1 «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 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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