The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 119

But when she had fed him out of the bowl he grew stronger, and soon was able to sit up.

Who acts: witch, boy · What happens: feed, grow, be, sit up · To what, where: boy, bowl

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, boy), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 grew	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 fed	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fed	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fed	aux
5	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 grew	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fed	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 bowl	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 bowl	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bowl	det
10	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fed	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 grew	nsubj
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 grew	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 able	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 able	cc
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 able	advmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 able	cop
18	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grew	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 sit	mark
20	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 able	xcomp
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 sit	compound:prt
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	feed	past · perfect	witch	boy	the bowl		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	grow	past	boy			strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	boy not said here			able, soon property	tree rules
4	sit up	to-infinitive	boy not said here				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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