The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 37

The trees grew so thick and near together that it was almost impossible to see through them, only straight in front of him lay a little patch of meadowland.

Who acts: trees · What happens: grow, be, see, lay · To what, where: little patch, front

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (trees), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trees	det
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 thick	advmod
5	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 impossible	cc
7	near	near	ADP	_	8 together	case
8	together	together	ADV	_	13 impossible	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 impossible	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 impossible	expl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 impossible	cop
12	almost	almost	ADV	_	13 impossible	advmod
13	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thick	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 impossible	xcomp
16	through	through	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 see	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 front	punct
19	only	only	ADV	_	22 front	advmod
20	straight	straight	ADV	_	22 front	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 front	case
22	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lay	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 front	nmod
25	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 patch	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 patch	amod
28	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lay	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 meadowland	case
30	meadowland	meadowland	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 patch	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the trees			thick property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the trees not said here			almost, impossible property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	the trees not said here			through trees = tree	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	lay	present	the trees not said here	a little patch of meadowland	front of Prince		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent patch=Theme in front=Destination

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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