The Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones, sentence 2

As the days passed, the wheat stalks grew tall and the young birds, too, grew in strength.

Who acts: days, wheat stalks · What happens: pass, grow · To what, where: strength

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lark and Her Young Ones. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days, wheat stalks), 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 passed	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 days	det
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 passed	nsubj
4	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 grew	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 passed	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stalks	det
7	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stalks	compound
8	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grew	nsubj
9	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grew	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 birds	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 birds	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 birds	amod
14	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grew	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grew	punct
16	too	too	ADV	_	18 grew	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grew	punct
18	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 grew	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 strength	case
20	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grew	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past	the days			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	the wheat stalks		tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	past	the wheat stalks not said here	strength		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in strength=Location

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 Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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