The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 135

And the years went on, and the King grew more and more clever at magic, and more and more disagreeable at home, and the Princess grew more beautiful and more dear every day she lived.

Who acts: years, King, Princess · What happens: go on, grow, live · To what, where: more disagreeable, day

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (years, King, Princess), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 years	det
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grew	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 grew	nsubj
10	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 clever	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 clever	cc
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 clever	advmod
14	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grew	xcomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 magic	case
16	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 clever	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 disagreeable	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 disagreeable	cc
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 disagreeable	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 more	cc
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 more	conj
22	disagreeable	disagreeable	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grew	obl
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 home	case
24	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 disagreeable	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 grew	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 grew	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Princess	det
28	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 grew	nsubj
29	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
30	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 beautiful	advmod
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 grew	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 dear	cc
33	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 dear	advmod
34	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 beautiful	conj
35	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	36 day	det
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grew	obl:unmarked
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 lived	nsubj
38	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 day	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	the years				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	the King	more disagreeable at home		clever property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	past	the Princess		day	beautiful property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	live	past	Princess	every day not said here			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme day=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 Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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