The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 3
The baby grew and throve as no baby in that country had ever done, and in four days he was a man, and as tall and strong as any brave of the tribe.
Who acts: baby · What happens: grow, throve, do, be · To what, where: country, man
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baby), 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 baby | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 throve | cc |
| 5 | throve | throve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 baby | case |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 baby | det |
| 8 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 throve | obl |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 14 done | mark |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 country | det |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 done | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 done | advmod |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 throve | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 man | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 man | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 days | case |
| 18 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 days | nummod |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 man | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 man | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 man | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 tall | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 tall | cc |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 tall | advmod |
| 27 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | parataxis |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 strong | cc |
| 29 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 tall | conj |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 brave | mark |
| 31 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 brave | det |
| 32 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 tall | advcl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 tribe | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 tribe | det |
| 35 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 brave | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the baby | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | throve | past | the baby not said here | as no baby | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect · passive | that country | ever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | baby | a man | day | tree rules |
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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