The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 23

The boy grew up to be tall and strong and handsome, and he could run and shoot, and swim and dive better than any lad of his own age in the country.

Who acts: boy · What happens: grow up, be, run, shoot, swim, dive

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 grew	compound:prt
5	to	to	PART	_	7 tall	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 tall	cop
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 strong	cc
9	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tall	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 handsome	cc
11	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tall	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 run	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 run	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 run	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 run	aux
16	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grew	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 shoot	cc
18	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 run	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 swim	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 swim	cc
21	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 run	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 dive	cc
23	dive	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 swim	conj
24	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 dive	advmod
25	than	than	ADP	_	27 lad	case
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 lad	det
27	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 better	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 age	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 age	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 age	amod
31	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lad	nmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 country	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 country	det
34	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 age	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	grow up	past	the boy		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	tall property	tree rules
3	be		the boy not said here		tree rules
4	be		the boy not said here		tree rules
5	run	could	boy		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	shoot	infinitive	boy not said here		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	swim	infinitive	boy not said here		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	dive	infinitive	boy not said here	well property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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