The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 60

With each step the country became more and more dreary, but at nightfall the child could see behind the dark and bare rocks something darker still.

Who acts: country, child · What happens: become, see · To what, where: something, nightfall

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country, child), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 step	case
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 step	det
3	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 country	det
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	nsubj
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 became	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dreary	cc
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 dreary	advmod
10	dreary	dreary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 more	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 see	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 nightfall	case
14	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 child	det
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 became	conj
19	behind	behind	ADP	_	24 rocks	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rocks	det
21	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 rocks	amod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bare	cc
23	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dark	conj
24	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 see	obl
25	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 see	obj
26	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 something	amod
27	still	still	ADV	_	26 darker	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the country					with each step	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	see	could	the child	something		nightfall		behind the dark rocks	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus

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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