The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 15

As the years went on, the difference between the two girls grew more marked, and the old woman treated her stepdaughter worse than ever, and was always on the watch for some pretext for beating her, or depriving her of her food.

Who acts: years, difference, old woman · What happens: go on, grow, mark, treat, be, beat · To what, where: stepdaughter, watch, woman

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (years, difference, old woman), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 went	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 years	det
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 grew	advcl
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 difference	det
8	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grew	nsubj
9	between	between	ADP	_	12 girls	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girls	det
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 girls	nummod
12	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 difference	nmod
13	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 grew	advmod
15	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 more	acl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 treated	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 treated	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 woman	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 treated	nsubj
21	treated	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 grew	conj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 stepdaughter	nmod:poss
23	stepdaughter	stepdaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 treated	obj
24	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 treated	xcomp
25	than	than	ADP	_	26 ever	case
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 worse	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 watch	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 watch	cc
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 watch	cop
30	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	33 watch	advmod
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 watch	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 watch	det
33	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grew	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 pretext	case
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 pretext	det
36	pretext	pretext	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 watch	nmod
37	for	for	SCONJ	_	38 beating	mark
38	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 watch	advcl
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 beating	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 depriving	punct
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 depriving	cc
42	depriving	deprive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 beating	conj
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 depriving	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 food	case
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 food	nmod:poss
46	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 depriving	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go on	past	the years				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	the difference between the two girls				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mark	participle					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	treat	past	the old woman	woman's stepdaughter		bad property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stepdaughter=Recipient
5	is	past	the difference between the two girls not said here		the watch	for some pretext; always property	tree rules
6	beat	gerund	the difference between the two girls not said here	woman			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme
7	deprive	gerund	the difference between the two girls not said here	woman		of woman's food	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Source of food=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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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