The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 21
So the time passed by, and with each year Wildrose grew taller and more beautiful, and she lived happily in her nest and never wanted to go out of it, only standing at the edge in the sunset, and looking upon the beautiful world.
Who acts: time, Wildrose · What happens: pass by, grow, live, not want, go out, stand · To what, where: nest, edge
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, Wildrose), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 passed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 grew | cc |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 year | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 year | det |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | obl |
| 11 | Wildrose | Wildrose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 13 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 grew | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 beautiful | cc |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 beautiful | advmod |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 taller | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lived | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lived | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lived | nsubj |
| 20 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 grew | conj |
| 21 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 20 lived | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 nest | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 nest | nmod:poss |
| 24 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lived | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wanted | cc |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 wanted | advmod |
| 27 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lived | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 go | mark |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wanted | xcomp |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 go | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 standing | punct |
| 34 | only | only | ADV | _ | 35 standing | advmod |
| 35 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 go | advcl |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 edge | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 edge | det |
| 38 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 standing | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 sunset | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 sunset | det |
| 41 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 edge | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 looking | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 looking | cc |
| 44 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 grew | advcl |
| 45 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 48 world | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 world | det |
| 47 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 world | amod |
| 48 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 looking | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | participle | the time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | Wildrose | year | tall property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | live | past | Wildrose | Wildrose's nest | happily property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location | |||
| 4 | not want | past | Wildrose not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wildrose not said here | nest | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | stand | gerund | Wildrose not said here | the edge in the sunset | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at edge=Location | ||||
| 7 | look | gerund | Wildrose not said here | upon the beautiful world | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon world=Theme |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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