The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 23

At each of his visits the answer was always the same; but after a time the old cat, who was very observant, noticed that the little maid had grown to look sadder and sadder.

Who acts: each, old cat, house · What happens: be, notice, grow, look, visit · To what, where: observant, little maid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (each, old cat, house), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 each	case
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 same	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 visits	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 visits	nmod:poss
5	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 each	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 answer	det
7	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visits	conj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 same	cop
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 same	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 same	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 noticed	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 noticed	cc
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 time	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 noticed	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cat	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cat	amod
19	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 time	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 observant	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 observant	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 observant	cop
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 observant	advmod
24	observant	observant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cat	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 time	punct
26	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 same	parataxis
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 grown	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 maid	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 maid	amod
30	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 grown	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 grown	aux
32	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 noticed	ccomp
33	to	to	PART	_	34 look	mark
34	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 grown	xcomp
35	sadder	sad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 look	xcomp
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 sadder	cc
37	sadder	sad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 sadder	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 same	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	each			always, same property	tree rules
2	is a	past	the old cat	observant			tree rules
3	notice	past			time		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	grow	past · perfect · passive		the little maid			tree rules
5	look	to-infinitive				sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	visit		house				nom visit «act transitive»: poss=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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