The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 14

Years went by, and the boy and the dog played together till the boy grew tall and strong.

Who acts: Years, boy · What happens: go by, play, grow

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Years, boy), 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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	2 went	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 played	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 played	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 played	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dog	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boy	conj
11	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
12	together	together	ADV	_	11 played	advmod
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 grew	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grew	nsubj
16	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 played	advcl
17	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grew	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 strong	cc
19	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tall	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go by	past	Years		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	play	past	the boy and the dog	together property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	grow	past	the boy	tall property	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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