The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 68

But at length she grew tired of sitting there all day. '

Who acts: duck · What happens: grow, sit · To what, where: length

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duck), 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	_	6 tired	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 length	case
3	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tired	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 length	acl:relcl
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 sitting	mark
8	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 tired	advcl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 sitting	advmod
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	obl:unmarked
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	duck	length not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location length=Theme
2	sit	gerund				there	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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