The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 21
Children grow up very quickly when they live under water, and in less time than anyone could suppose, Dilah had changed from a baby to a woman.
Who acts: Children, anyone, Dilah · What happens: grow up, live, suppose, change · To what, where: water, less time, baby
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 (Children, anyone, Dilah), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 grow | compound:prt |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 quickly | advmod |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 grow | advmod |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 live | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 live | nsubj |
| 8 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 grow | advcl |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 live | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 changed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 changed | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 changed | obl |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 suppose | mark |
| 17 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 suppose | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 suppose | aux |
| 19 | suppose | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 time | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 21 | Dilah | Dilah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 changed | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 changed | aux |
| 23 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 grow | parataxis |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 baby | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 baby | det |
| 26 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 changed | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 woman | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 woman | det |
| 29 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 changed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | present | Children | quickly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | present | children = child | water | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under water=Location | ||||
| 3 | suppose | could | anyone | less time not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent time=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | change | past · perfect | Dilah | a baby | time | to a woman result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from baby=Initial_State to woman=Result |
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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