Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 10

The General's little daughter became delicate and pale, like the leaf of the acacia blossom.

Who acts: little daughter · What happens: become

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little daughter), 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	2 General	det
2	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 daughter	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 General	case
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 daughter	amod
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	nsubj
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 became	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pale	cc
9	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 delicate	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 leaf	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 leaf	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 leaf	det
13	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 blossom	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 blossom	det
16	acacia	acacia	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blossom	compound
17	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leaf	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the General's little daughter					like the leaf of the acacia blossom; delicate 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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