The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 25

As the children grew older their beauty and air of distinction became more and more marked, and their manners had all the grace and ease that is proper to people of high birth.

Who acts: children, distinction, manners, grace · What happens: grow, become, mark, have, be · To what, where: older beauty, grace

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, distinction, manners, grace), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 grew	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 beauty	amod
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 beauty	nmod:poss
7	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 air	cc
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beauty	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 distinction	case
11	distinction	distinction	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 became	nsubj
12	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 beauty	acl:relcl
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 became	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 marked	cc
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 marked	advmod
16	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 more	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 manners	nmod:poss
20	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 grace	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 grace	det
24	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ease	cc
26	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grace	conj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 proper	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 proper	cop
29	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grace	acl:relcl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 people	case
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 proper	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 birth	case
33	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 birth	amod
34	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 people	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the children	children's older beauty and air		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beauty=Theme
2	become	past	distinction	children's older beauty and air not said here		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient beauty=Result
3	mark	participle	distinction not said here			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	children's manners	all grace and ease		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grace=Patient
5	is	present	all grace and ease		to people of high birth; proper 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: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (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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