Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 3

When the seed came up, there was one plant bigger than all the rest; and it kept getting larger and larger, and seemed as if it would never cease growing; so that it might have been called the prince of turnips for there never was such a one seen before, and never will again.

Who acts: seed, plant · What happens: come up, be, get, seem, not cease, grow · To what, where: plant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seed, plant), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 seed	det
3	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 was	advcl
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 kept	cop
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 plant	nummod
10	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
11	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 plant	amod
12	than	than	ADP	_	15 rest	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 rest	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rest	det
15	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bigger	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 kept	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 kept	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 kept	nsubj
19	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 kept	xcomp
21	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 getting	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 larger	cc
23	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 larger	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seemed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 seemed	cc
26	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 kept	parataxis
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 cease	mark
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 cease	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cease	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 cease	aux
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 cease	advmod
32	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 seemed	xcomp
33	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 cease	xcomp
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 called	punct
35	so	so	SCONJ	_	41 called	advmod
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 so	fixed
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 called	nsubj:pass
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 called	aux
39	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 called	aux
40	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 called	aux:pass
41	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 seemed	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 prince	det
43	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 called	xcomp
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 turnips	case
45	turnips	turnip	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 prince	nmod
46	for	for	ADP	_	47 there	case
47	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 called	obl
48	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	58 will	advmod
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 will	cop
50	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	58 will	det:predet
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 will	det
52	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	58 will	nsubj
53	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 one	acl
54	before	before	ADV	_	53 seen	advmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 will	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 will	cc
57	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	58 will	advmod
58	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 called	advcl
59	again	again	ADV	_	58 will	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the seed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	plant		keep property	tree rules
3	get	gerund	plant not said here		large property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	seem	past				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	not cease a condition, not said to happen	would	plant			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	grow	gerund	plant not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	call	might · perfect · passive		plant		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for there=Beneficiary
8	see	participle			before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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