The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 100

Helga grew red and did not answer.

Who acts: Helga · What happens: grow, not answer

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helga), 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	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grew	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 answer	cc
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 answer	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 answer	advmod
7	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 grew	conj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Helga					red property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not answer speech: assert	past · do-support	Helga not said here						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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