The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 49

Then the old man fell ill, and things grew worse than ever, so he called his son and said to him:

Who acts: old man, things, man · What happens: fall, grow, call, say · To what, where: son, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, things, man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 fell	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fell	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grew	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grew	cc
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grew	nsubj
10	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
11	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 grew	xcomp
12	than	than	ADP	_	13 ever	case
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 worse	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 called	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 called	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 called	nsubj
17	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 son	nmod:poss
19	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 called	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the old man		then	ill property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	things			bad property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call	past	man	man's son			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	past	the old man not said here	man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

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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