Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 35

Years passed by, and the three boys had grown up to be men.

Who acts: Years, three boys · What happens: pass by, grow up, be · To what, where: men

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sons of William the Conqueror.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Years, three boys), 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	Years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	2 passed	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grown	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grown	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boys	det
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 boys	nummod
8	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grown	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 grown	aux
10	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 passed	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 grown	compound:prt
12	to	to	PART	_	14 men	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 men	cop
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grown	obl:agent
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pass by	participle	Years		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow up	past · perfect	the three boys		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive		men	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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