The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 81
Thus fostered they grew and flourished marvellously, and promised a goodly crop.
Who acts: rivers · What happens: foster, grow, flourish, promise · To what, where: goodly crop
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 (rivers), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 fostered | advmod |
| 2 | fostered | foster | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fostered | ccomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 flourished | cc |
| 6 | flourished | flourish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 7 | marvellously | marvellously | ADV | _ | 6 flourished | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 promised | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 promised | cc |
| 10 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fostered | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 crop | det |
| 12 | goodly | goodly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 crop | amod |
| 13 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 promised | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fostered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | foster | past | thus property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | rivers = river | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | flourish | past | rivers = river not said here | marvellously property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | past | a goodly crop | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent crop=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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