The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 95

But as the years went on, and the baby grew into a fine big boy, the remembrance of it came back, and one day he told the queen the whole story.

Who acts: years, baby, remembrance · What happens: go on, grow, come back, tell, remember · To what, where: fine big boy, whole story, queen, baby · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (years, baby, remembrance), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 grew	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 went	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 years	det
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 grew	advcl
6	on	on	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 grew	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 baby	det
10	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grew	nsubj
11	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	into	into	ADP	_	16 boy	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 boy	det
14	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boy	amod
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boy	amod
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grew	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 remembrance	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 remembrance	det
19	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 remembrance	nmod
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 boy	acl:relcl
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 told	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 told	cc
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 day	nummod
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 told	obl:unmarked
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	nsubj
29	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 grew	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 queen	det
31	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 told	obj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 story	det
33	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 story	amod
34	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 told	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	the years					vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	the baby				into a fine big boy result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into boy=Result
3	come back	past	the remembrance of baby	a fine big boy not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boy=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	remembrance	the whole story	the queen	day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient story=Topic
5	remember			baby				nom remembrance «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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