Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 92

There were two leaves now, and the plant was much stronger and greener than it was the day before.

Who acts: two leaves, plant · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two leaves, plant), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 leaves	nummod
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 were	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stronger	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stronger	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 plant	det
9	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stronger	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stronger	cop
11	much	much	ADV	_	12 stronger	advmod
12	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 were	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 greener	cc
14	greener	green	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 stronger	conj
15	than	than	ADP	_	19 day	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 day	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 day	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stronger	obl
20	before	before	ADV	_	19 day	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	two leaves	there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the plant			strong property	tree rules
3	be		the plant not said here				tree rules
4	is	past	plant		than the day	before 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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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