The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 64

Years passed quickly with the whole family, and one day the parents suddenly perceived that all three girls were grown up, and that very soon they would be thinking of marriage.

Who acts: Years, parents, that · What happens: pass, perceive, grow up, think · To what, where: three girls

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Years, parents, that), 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	Years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 passed	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 family	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 family	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 family	amod
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 perceived	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 perceived	cc
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 day	nummod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 perceived	obl:unmarked
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 parents	det
13	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 perceived	nsubj
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	15 perceived	advmod
15	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 grown	mark
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 girls	det
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 girls	nummod
19	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 grown	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 grown	aux:pass
21	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 perceived	advcl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 grown	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 thinking	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 thinking	cc
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 thinking	nsubj
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 soon	advmod
27	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 thinking	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 thinking	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 thinking	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 thinking	aux
31	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 passed	advcl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 marriage	case
33	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 thinking	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	Years			with the whole family; quickly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	perceive	past	the parents		day	suddenly property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	grow up	past · passive		all three girls			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	think speech: other	would · progressive	that			of marriage; soon property	vn focus-87.1-1 «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 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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