The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 106
Matters got worse and worse till, one morning, the eldest boy said to the twins:
Who acts: Matters, worse till · What happens: get, say · To what, where: twins · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Matters, worse till), 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 | Matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 got | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 5 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 till | amod |
| 6 | till | till | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 morning | punct |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 morning | nummod |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 till | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 boy | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 12 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 boy | amod |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 twins | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 twins | det |
| 17 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Matters | bad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | worse till and one morning | the twins | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to twin=Recipient |
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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