Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 91

For indeed he had been growing thin and haggard for a long time, and his beard was all long and tangled.

Who acts: man, beard · What happens: grow, be · To what, where: thin haggard

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, beard), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 indeed	case
2	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 growing	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 growing	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 growing	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 growing	aux
6	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 haggard	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 haggard	cc
9	haggard	haggard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 growing	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 time	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 growing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 long	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 long	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 beard	nmod:poss
17	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 long	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 long	cop
19	all	all	ADV	_	20 long	advmod
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 growing	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tangled	cc
22	tangled	tangled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 long	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 growing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · perfect · progressive	man	thin haggard	time		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent haggard=Product for indeed=Beneficiary
2	is	past	man's beard			all, long property	tree rules
3	be		man's beard not said here				tree rules

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/19/91/