The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 90

The children both grew quickly, and were never tired of playing together, or wanted any other companions.

Who acts: children · What happens: grow, not be, play, want · To what, where: other companions

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grew	nsubj
3	both	both	ADV	_	4 grew	advmod
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 grew	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tired	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tired	cc
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tired	cop
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 tired	advmod
10	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	advcl
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 playing	mark
12	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 tired	advcl
13	together	together	ADV	_	12 playing	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wanted	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 wanted	cc
16	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 companions	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 companions	amod
19	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wanted	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the children		both, quickly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is	past	the children not said here		tired property	tree rules
3	play	gerund	the children not said here		together property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	want	past	the children not said here	any other companions		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot companion=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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