The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 63
Years passed by, and the baby grew up into a find handsome lad, as daring as he was beautiful, and as industrious as he was brave.
Who acts: Years, baby · What happens: pass by, grow up, be · To what, where: find handsome lad
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Years, baby), 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 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 2 passed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grew | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 baby | det |
| 7 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 grew | compound:prt |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 lad | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lad | det |
| 12 | find | find | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lad | compound |
| 13 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lad | amod |
| 14 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 daring | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 daring | case |
| 17 | daring | daring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grew | conj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 beautiful | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 beautiful | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 beautiful | cop |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 daring | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 industrious | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 industrious | cc |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 industrious | advmod |
| 25 | industrious | industrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grew | conj |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 brave | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 brave | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 brave | cop |
| 29 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 industrious | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | participle | Years | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow up | past | the baby | into a find handsome lad result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into lad=Result | ||||
| 3 | is | past | baby | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | baby | brave property | tree rules |
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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