The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 110

Two or three months went by, and though the baby was still a baby, the kitten was fast becoming a cat, and one evening when, as usual, the nurse came to look for her, to put her in the baby’s cot, she was nowhere to be found.

Who acts: Two months, baby, kitten, nurse · What happens: go by, be, become, come, look, put · To what, where: baby, cat, cot

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two months, baby, kitten, nurse), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 months	nummod
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 three	cc
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Two	conj
4	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	5 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fast	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fast	cc
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 baby	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 baby	det
11	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 baby	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 baby	cop
13	still	still	ADV	_	15 baby	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 baby	det
15	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fast	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 baby	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 kitten	det
18	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fast	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fast	cop
20	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	parataxis
21	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 fast	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 cat	det
23	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 becoming	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 evening	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 evening	cc
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 evening	nummod
27	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
28	when	when	SCONJ	_	31 usual	mark
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 usual	punct
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 usual	case
31	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 came	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 nurse	det
34	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
36	to	to	PART	_	37 look	mark
37	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 came	xcomp
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 her	case
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 look	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 put	punct
41	to	to	PART	_	42 put	mark
42	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 look	conj
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 put	obj
44	in	in	ADP	_	48 cot	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 baby	det
46	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 cot	nmod:poss
47	’s	's	PART	_	46 baby	case
48	cot	cot	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 put	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 nowhere	punct
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 nowhere	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 nowhere	cop
52	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 came	advmod
53	to	to	PART	_	55 found	mark
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 found	aux:pass
55	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 nowhere	advcl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go by	past	Two months			evening		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	the baby	a baby		still		tree rules
3	is	past	the kitten				fast property	tree rules
4	become	gerund	the kitten not said here	a cat				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient cat=Result
5	come	past	the nurse					tree rules
6	look	to-infinitive	the nurse not said here				for baby	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for she=Theme
7	put	to-infinitive	the nurse not said here	baby	the baby's cot			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in cot=Destination
8	is	past	kitten				nowhere property	tree rules
9	find	to-infinitive · passive	kitten not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»

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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