The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 28
The foot only grew worse and worse, and became daily more swollen and painful.
Who acts: foot · What happens: grow, become
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foot), 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 foot | det |
| 2 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 grew | advmod |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 grew | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 worse | cc |
| 7 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 worse | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 became | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 became | cc |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 11 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 12 more | advmod |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 swollen | advmod |
| 13 | swollen | swollen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 became | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 painful | cc |
| 15 | painful | painful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 swollen | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the foot | bad property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | the foot not said here | swollen property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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