English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 3

It began to be dark, and they were hungry.

Who acts: house, man · What happens: begin, be

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Molly Whuppie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, man), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 dark	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 dark	cop
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 began	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hungry	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hungry	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hungry	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hungry	cop
10	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 began	parataxis
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	begin	past	house		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	to-infinitive	house not said here	dark property	tree rules
3	is	past	man	hungry property	tree rules

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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