The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 79
As the days went by the thorn of love rankled in his heart, and he became the very example of lovers, and grew faint and feeble.
Who acts: arrow · What happens: go, rankle, become, grow, exemplify · To what, where: love, heart, example, lovers
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arrow), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | obl |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 thorn | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thorn | det |
| 7 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 love | case |
| 9 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thorn | nmod |
| 10 | rankled | rankle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 love | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rankled | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 became | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 became | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 became | nsubj |
| 17 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 example | det |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 example | advmod |
| 20 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 became | xcomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 lovers | case |
| 22 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 example | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 grew | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 grew | cc |
| 25 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 26 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 grew | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 feeble | cc |
| 28 | feeble | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 faint | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | day | by the thorn of love | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by thorn=Location | ||||
| 2 | rankle | participle | love not said here | arrow's heart | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | become | past | arrow | the example of lovers | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | faint property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | exemplify | lovers | nom example «cognition transitive»: of=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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