The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 35
As he did so the song grew sweeter and more tender than before, but he shut his ears to it and bent his head over the shell.
Who acts: air, song · What happens: do, grow, shut, bend · To what, where: ears, song, head, shell
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, song), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 did | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grew | advcl |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 song | det |
| 6 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grew | nsubj |
| 7 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | sweeter | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 grew | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tender | cc |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 tender | amod |
| 11 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sweeter | conj |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 before | case |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 8 sweeter | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shut | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 shut | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 shut | nsubj |
| 17 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grew | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 ears | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shut | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 shut | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bent | cc |
| 23 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grew | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bent | obj |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 shell | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 shell | det |
| 28 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bent | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | air | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | the song | sweet property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shut | past | air | air's ears | song | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | |||
| 4 | bend | past | the song not said here | air's head | the shell | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme over shell=Location |
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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