The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 97
But by-and-by things grew better.
Who acts: things · What happens: grow
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things), 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 | _ | 8 grew | cc |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 - | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grew | cc |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 and | punct |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 things | case |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 grew | xcomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | things | good property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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