--- title: The two girls, light of heart, now took their berries and ran off th… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The two girls, light of heart, now took their berries and ran off through the wood after the bird; and soon it began to get lighter in the wood and they wondered how they could have lost their way yesterday, it seemed so easy and plain now. Who acts: two girls, wood, girls, it. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two girls, wood, girls, it), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3454:25:35 # text = The two girls, light of heart, now took their berries and ran off through the wood after the bird; and soon it began to get lighter in the wood and they wondered how they could have lost their way yesterday, it seemed so easy and plain now. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 10 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 berries berry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 off off ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 through through ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 after after ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 lighter light ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 xcomp _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 wondered wonder VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 36 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 aux _ _ 40 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 ccomp _ _ 41 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 yesterday yesterday NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 47 so so ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 xcomp _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 conj _ _ 51 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 46 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the two girls and light of heart | girls's berries | | | now | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme | | 2 | **run off** | past | the two girls and light of heart *not said here* | | | the wood | after the bird | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory | | 3 | **begin** | past | wood | | | | | soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | wood *not said here* | | | | | light *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | girls *= girl* | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **lose** | could · perfect | girls *= girl* | girls's way | | | yesterday | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | | 7 | **seem** | past | it | | | | now | easy *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **light** | | | heart | | | | | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/25/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/25/36/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/25/)