The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 80

But though it was plainly becoming longer and longer, it was some time before the two would fit.

Who acts: sword, two · What happens: become, be, fit · To what, where: time

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, two), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 becoming	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 becoming	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 becoming	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 becoming	aux
5	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	6 becoming	advmod
6	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 becoming	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 longer	cc
9	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 longer	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 becoming	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 time	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 time	cop
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 becoming	xcomp
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 fit	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 two	det
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 fit	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 fit	aux
19	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 time	acl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 becoming	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	past · progressive	sword		long, plainly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past	sword	some time		tree rules
3	fit	would	the two	some time not said here		vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Patient

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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