The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 98
He took the crown in his hand, and as he held it, it grew bigger and bigger, till it was as large as a real crown.
Who acts: king, crown · What happens: take, hold, grow, be · To what, where: crown, hand
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, crown), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crown | det |
| 4 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 grew | cc |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 held | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 held | nsubj |
| 12 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 grew | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 held | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 held | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 grew | nsubj |
| 16 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 17 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 grew | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bigger | cc |
| 19 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 bigger | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 large | punct |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 large | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 large | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 large | cop |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 large | advmod |
| 25 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 grew | advcl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 crown | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 crown | det |
| 28 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 crown | amod |
| 29 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 large | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | king | the crown | king's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent crown=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | hold | past | king | crown | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | crown | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | crown | as a real crown; large property | tree rules |
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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