Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 125

She, however, grew sadder and sadder, and was no longer like her former self, so sorrowful was she.

Who acts: Tsar · What happens: grow, not be, be · To what, where: Tsar

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grew	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 She	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	5 grew	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sadder	sad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 grew	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sadder	cc
8	sadder	sad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 sadder	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 longer	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 longer	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 longer	cop
12	no	no	ADV	_	13 longer	advmod
13	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 grew	advmod
14	like	like	ADP	_	17 self	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 self	nmod:poss
16	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 self	amod
17	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 longer	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sorrowful	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 sorrowful	advmod
20	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grew	conj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 she	cop
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sorrowful	nsubj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Tsar		however, sad property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is	past			like Tsar's former self; long property	tree rules
3	is a	past		Tsar		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.

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