The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 66

This hindered their progress, and by the time they had entered the thick wood which lay between them and their destination the sun was already touching the tops of the trees.

Who acts: This, Hans, thick wood, destination · What happens: hinder, enter, lie, touch, progress · To what, where: progress, thick wood, tops

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Hans, thick wood, destination), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 hindered	nsubj
2	hindered	hinder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 progress	nmod:poss
4	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hindered	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 entered	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 entered	cc
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 entered	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 entered	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 entered	aux
12	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 hindered	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wood	det
14	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wood	amod
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 entered	obj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 lay	nsubj
17	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wood	acl:relcl
18	between	between	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lay	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 touching	cc
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 destination	nmod:poss
22	destination	destination	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 touching	nsubj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sun	det
24	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 touching	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 touching	aux
26	already	already	ADV	_	27 touching	advmod
27	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 lay	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tops	det
29	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 touching	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 trees	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 trees	det
32	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 tops	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hindered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hinder	past	This	Hans's progress			vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer progress=Eventuality
2	enter	past · perfect	Hans = han	the thick wood	time		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Destination
3	lie	past	the thick wood			between Hans = han	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between they=Location
4	touch	past · progressive	Hans's destination	the tops of the trees			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme top=Co-Theme
5	progress		Hans = han				nom progress «act intransitive»: poss=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 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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