The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 51

They ran on till they reached such a dark part of the forest that, if it had not been for the light shed by the ball, they could not have made their way at all.

Who acts: backs, part · What happens: run on, reach, not be, shed, not make · To what, where: dark part, light, forest, all

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (backs, part), 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 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	6 reached	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 reached	nsubj
6	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	advcl
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 part	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 part	det
9	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 part	amod
10	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 forest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 forest	det
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 part	nmod
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 made	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 that	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 light	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 light	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 light	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 light	advmod
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 light	cop
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 light	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 light	det
23	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	advcl
24	shed	shed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 light	acl
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 ball	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ball	det
27	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 light	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 made	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 made	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 made	advmod
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 made	aux
33	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 forest	acl:relcl
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 way	nmod:poss
35	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	obl:unmarked
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 all	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 made	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run on	past	backs = back				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach	past	backs = back	such dark part of the forest			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent part=Theme
3	not is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	part			for the light	tree rules
4	shed	participle		the light not said here		by the ball	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
5	not make	could · perfect	backs = back	the forest	all	backs's way obl:unmarked	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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