Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 138
The black wood-snail became blacker still; not for grief, but for envy. "
Who acts: black wood snail · What happens: become
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black wood snail), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 snail | det |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 snail | amod |
| 3 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 snail | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 wood | punct |
| 5 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | nsubj |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | blacker | black | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 became | xcomp |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 became | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 grief | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 grief | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 grief | case |
| 12 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 envy | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 envy | cc |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 envy | case |
| 16 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grief | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 grief | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 grief | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the black wood snail | still | for grief but envy; black property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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