The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 26

Then with heavy hearts they set out to follow the course of the stream, which had now grown so wide that it was only with difficulty they could distinguish each other.

Who acts: Sylvain, stream, course · What happens: set out, follow, grow, be, distinguish · To what, where: course, each

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sylvain, stream, course), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 set	advmod
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 hearts	case
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hearts	amod
4	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 set	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 set	nsubj
6	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 set	compound:prt
8	to	to	PART	_	9 follow	mark
9	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 set	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 course	det
11	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 follow	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 stream	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stream	det
14	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 course	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grown	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 grown	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 grown	aux
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 grown	advmod
19	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 stream	acl:relcl
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 wide	advmod
21	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grown	xcomp
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 difficulty	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 difficulty	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 difficulty	cop
25	only	only	ADV	_	27 difficulty	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 difficulty	case
27	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wide	advcl
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 distinguish	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 distinguish	aux
30	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 difficulty	acl:relcl
31	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	30 distinguish	obj
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 each	fixed
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	set out	past	Sylvain		then	with heavy hearts	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	follow	to-infinitive	Sylvain not said here	the course of the stream			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Theme
3	grow	past · perfect	the stream		now	wide property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	course			with difficulty	tree rules
5	distinguish	could	Sylvain	each			vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute each=Theme

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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