The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 100

For some time the kingdom remained, though it became weaker and weaker every year that passed.

Who acts: kingdom, year · What happens: remain, become, pass · To what, where: year

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kingdom, year), 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	_	3 time	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remained	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kingdom	det
5	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remained	nsubj
6	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 became	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 became	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 became	nsubj
10	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 remained	conj
11	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 became	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 weaker	cc
13	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 weaker	conj
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 year	det
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 became	xcomp
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 passed	nsubj
17	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 year	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the kingdom		time		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	past	kingdom	every year		weak property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	pass	past	every year				vn occur-48.3-1 «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: «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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