The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 19
Dilah had become so big and strong, that Thakane’s heart was filled with joy and gratitude, and she stayed as long as she dared, playing with her baby.
Who acts: Dilah, Thakane · What happens: become, fill, stay, dare, play · To what, where: heart
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dilah, Thakane), 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 | Dilah | Dilah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 become | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 become | aux |
| 3 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 big | advmod |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 become | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 strong | cc |
| 7 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 big | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 filled | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 filled | mark |
| 10 | Thakane | Thakane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Thakane | case |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 filled | aux:pass |
| 14 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 become | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 joy | case |
| 16 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gratitude | cc |
| 18 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 joy | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stayed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stayed | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stayed | nsubj |
| 22 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 become | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 long | advmod |
| 24 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 stayed | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 dared | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 dared | nsubj |
| 27 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 long | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 playing | punct |
| 29 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 stayed | advcl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 baby | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 baby | nmod:poss |
| 32 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 playing | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past · perfect | Dilah | big property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | Thakane's heart | with joy and gratitude | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with joy=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | stay | past | Thakane | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dare | past | Thakane | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | play | gerund | Thakane not said here | with Thakane's baby | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with baby=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 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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