The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 6

For some time she could see nothing before her but a flat waste of sand, which became hotter and hotter as the sun rose higher and higher.

Who acts: princess, flat waste, sun · What happens: see, become, rise · To what, where: nothing

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, flat waste, sun), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 see	obj
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 waste	mark
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 waste	nmod:poss
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 waste	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 waste	det
12	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 waste	amod
13	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	parataxis
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 sand	case
15	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waste	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 became	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 became	nsubj
18	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 waste	parataxis
19	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 became	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hotter	cc
21	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 hotter	conj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 rose	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sun	det
24	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rose	nsubj
25	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 hotter	advcl
26	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 rose	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 higher	cc
28	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 higher	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	princess	nothing	time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	become	past	princess's flat waste of sand			hot property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	rise	past	the sun			high property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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