Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 60

The bitter tears fell upon the jasmine twig, and each day, as she became paler and paler, the sprig appeared to grow greener and fresher.

Who acts: bitter tears, girl, sprig · What happens: fall, become, appear, grow · To what, where: jasmine twig

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bitter tears, girl, sprig), 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	3 tears	det
2	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tears	amod
3	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 twig	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 twig	det
7	jasmine	jasmine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 twig	compound
8	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 day	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 day	cc
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 became	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 became	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 became	nsubj
16	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	parataxis
17	paler	pale	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 became	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 paler	cc
19	paler	pale	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 paler	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 appeared	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sprig	det
22	sprig	sprig	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 appeared	nsubj
23	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 became	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 grow	mark
25	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 appeared	xcomp
26	greener	green	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 grow	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fresher	cc
28	fresher	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 greener	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the bitter tears	the jasmine twig	day		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon twig=Location
2	become	past	girl			pale property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	appear	past	the sprig				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	grow	to-infinitive	the sprig not said here			green property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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