The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 56

They assured her that all was well with them; but, nevertheless, they continued to waste away, and day by day it became harder to them to take part in the games of the princess, till at last, one fine morning, when the princess started from bed and hastened out to join her gay playfellows, she shuddered and started back at the sight of a group of shrivelled crones, with bent backs and trembling limbs, who supported their tottering steps with staves and crutches, and coughed dismally.

Who acts: Brunhilda, mirror, princess, limbs · What happens: assure, be, continue, waste away, become, take · To what, where: princess, Brunhilda, part, games, bed, gay playfellows

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brunhilda, mirror, princess, limbs), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 assured	nsubj
2	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 assured	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 them	mark
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 them	det
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 them	cop
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 them	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 assured	ccomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 continued	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 continued	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nevertheless	punct
13	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	16 continued	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 continued	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 continued	nsubj
16	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 assured	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 waste	mark
18	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 continued	xcomp
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 waste	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 became	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 became	cc
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 became	obl:unmarked
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 day	case
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 day	nmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 became	nsubj
26	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 assured	conj
27	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 became	xcomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 became	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 take	mark
31	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 became	advcl
32	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 take	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 games	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 games	det
35	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 take	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 princess	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 princess	det
38	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 games	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 last	punct
40	till	till	ADP	_	42 last	case
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 last	case
42	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 take	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 morning	punct
44	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 morning	nummod
45	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 morning	amod
46	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 last	obl:unmarked
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 started	punct
48	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	51 started	advmod
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 princess	det
50	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 started	nsubj
51	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 assured	parataxis
52	from	from	ADP	_	53 bed	case
53	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 started	obl
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 hastened	cc
55	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 started	conj
56	out	out	ADP	_	55 hastened	compound:prt
57	to	to	PART	_	58 join	mark
58	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 hastened	advcl
59	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 playfellows	nmod:poss
60	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 playfellows	amod
61	playfellows	playfellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 join	obj
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 shuddered	punct
63	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 shuddered	nsubj
64	shuddered	shudder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 assured	conj
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 started	cc
66	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 shuddered	conj
67	back	back	ADV	_	66 started	advmod
68	at	at	ADP	_	70 sight	case
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 sight	det
70	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 started	obl
71	of	of	ADP	_	73 group	case
72	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	73 group	det
73	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 sight	nmod
74	of	of	ADP	_	76 crones	case
75	shrivelled	shrivelled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	76 crones	amod
76	crones	crone	NOUN	Number=Plur	73 group	nmod
77	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 backs	punct
78	with	with	ADP	_	80 backs	case
79	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	80 backs	amod
80	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 shuddered	obl
81	and	and	CCONJ	_	82 trembling	cc
82	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	80 backs	conj
83	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	82 trembling	obj
84	,	,	PUNCT	_	86 supported	punct
85	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	86 supported	nsubj
86	supported	support	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	83 limbs	acl:relcl
87	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	89 steps	nmod:poss
88	tottering	tottering	NOUN	Number=Sing	89 steps	compound
89	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	86 supported	obj
90	with	with	ADP	_	91 staves	case
91	staves	stave	NOUN	Number=Plur	86 supported	obl
92	and	and	CCONJ	_	93 crutches	cc
93	crutches	crutch	NOUN	Number=Plur	91 staves	conj
94	,	,	PUNCT	_	96 coughed	punct
95	and	and	CCONJ	_	96 coughed	cc
96	coughed	cough	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 assured	conj
97	dismally	dismally	ADV	_	96 coughed	advmod
98	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 assured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assure	past	Brunhilda		princess				vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is	past	Brunhilda not said here					with Veils = veil; well property	tree rules
3	continue	past	Brunhilda					nevertheless property	vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	waste away	to-infinitive	Brunhilda not said here					away property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	become	past	mirror		Brunhilda		day	hard property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	take	to-infinitive	mirror not said here	part		the games of the princess			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in game=Location
7	start	past	the princess			bed			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
8	hasten out	participle	the princess not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	join	to-infinitive	the princess not said here	princess's gay playfellows					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent playfellow=Patient
10	shudder	past	princess					with bent backs	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
11	start back	past	princess not said here			the sight of a group of shrivelled crones			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
12	tremble	gerund	princess not said here	limbs					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location limb=Theme
13	support	past	limbs	Brunhilda's tottering steps				with staves and crutches	vn help-72.1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent step=Beneficiary with stave=Theme
14	cough	past	Brunhilda not said here					dismally property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
15	sight			a group of shrivelled crones					nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
16	step		Brunhilda						nom step «act transitive»: poss=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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