The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 94

In those days feasts were much longer and more splendid than they are now; and it was growing dark when the princess, tired out with all she had gone through, stole up to her own room for a little quiet.

Who acts: days feasts, wars, feast, princess · What happens: be, grow, go through, steal up

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days feasts, wars, feast, princess), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 days	det
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feasts	compound
4	feasts	feast	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 splendid	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 splendid	cop
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 longer	advmod
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 splendid	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 splendid	cc
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 splendid	advmod
10	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 are	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 are	nsubj
13	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 splendid	advcl
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 are	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 growing	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 growing	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 growing	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 growing	aux
19	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 splendid	conj
20	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 growing	xcomp
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 stole	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 princess	det
23	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stole	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tired	punct
25	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 princess	amod
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 tired	compound:prt
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 all	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 tired	obl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 gone	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 gone	aux
31	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 all	acl:relcl
32	through	through	ADV	_	31 gone	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 princess	punct
34	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 growing	advcl
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 stole	compound:prt
36	to	to	ADP	_	39 room	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 room	nmod:poss
38	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 room	amod
39	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stole	obl
40	for	for	ADP	_	43 quiet	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 quiet	det
42	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 quiet	amod
43	quiet	quiet	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 room	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 splendid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	days feasts		long, splendid property	tree rules
2	does	present	wars = war	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	past · progressive	feast		dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go through	past · perfect	princess		through property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	steal up	past	the princess		to princess's own room for a little quiet	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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