The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 56

From being a merry and light-hearted boy, he had grown into a gloomy and thoughtful man.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: be, grow · To what, where: merry hearted boy

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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	From	from	SCONJ	_	9 boy	mark
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 boy	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 boy	det
4	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boy	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 light	cc
6	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 merry	conj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 light	punct
8	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boy	amod
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grown	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 boy	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 grown	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 grown	aux
13	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	into	into	ADP	_	19 man	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
16	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thoughtful	cc
18	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 gloomy	conj
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grown	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 grown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund	Prince not said here	a merry hearted boy					tree rules
2	grow	past · perfect	Prince					into a gloomy man result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into man=Result

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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