The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 96

But instead of losing his shape, as so many had done before, he only grew ten times handsomer; for the water was enchanted for good and not ill.

Who acts: many, boy · What happens: lose, do, grow, enchant · To what, where: shape, water

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 (many, boy), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 losing	cc
2	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	4 losing	mark
3	of	of	ADP	_	2 instead	fixed
4	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shape	nmod:poss
6	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 losing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 done	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 done	mark
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 many	advmod
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 done	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 done	aux
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 losing	parataxis
13	before	before	ADV	_	12 done	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grew	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 grew	nsubj
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 grew	advmod
17	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 done	parataxis
18	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 times	nummod
19	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 handsomer	obl:unmarked
20	handsomer	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 grew	xcomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 enchanted	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 enchanted	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 water	det
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 enchanted	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 enchanted	aux:pass
26	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 grew	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 good	case
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 enchanted	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 ill	cc
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 ill	advmod
31	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 good	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 losing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose	gerund		boy's shape		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Eventuality
2	do	past · perfect	many		before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	grow	past	boy		handsome property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	enchant	past · passive		the water	for good	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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