The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 18

Carelessly they wandered on, till at last they reached the edge of the Tontlawald, where the finest strawberries grew, making the grass red with their colour.

Who acts: children, finest strawberries · What happens: wander, reach, grow, make · To what, where: edge, last, grass

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, finest strawberries), 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	Carelessly	carelessly	ADV	_	3 wandered	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wandered	nsubj
3	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 wandered	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 reached	punct
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 reached	mark
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 reached	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 reached	nsubj
10	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wandered	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 edge	det
12	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reached	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Tontlawald	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Tontlawald	det
15	Tontlawald	Tontlawald	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 edge	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grew	punct
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 grew	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 strawberries	det
19	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 strawberries	amod
20	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 grew	nsubj
21	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Tontlawald	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 making	punct
23	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 grew	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 grass	det
25	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 making	obj
26	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 making	xcomp
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 colour	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 colour	nmod:poss
29	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 red	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wander	past	children = child			carelessly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach	past	children = child	the edge of the Tontlawald	last		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent edge=Theme at last=Asset
3	grow	past	the finest strawberries				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	gerund	the finest strawberries not said here	the grass		red property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset grass=Product

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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