The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 91

Well, the proud lady fired up, and was going to say something dreadful; but the scissors kept on cutting, and the silk growing richer and richer every inch.

Who acts: proud lady, silk · What happens: fire up, go, say, keep, grow · To what, where: something, scissors, cutting · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proud lady, silk), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 fired	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lady	det
4	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lady	amod
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fired	nsubj
6	fired	fire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 fired	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 going	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 going	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 going	aux
11	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 fired	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 say	mark
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 going	xcomp
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 say	obj
15	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 something	amod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 kept	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 kept	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 scissors	det
19	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 kept	nsubj:pass
20	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fired	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 cutting	case
22	cutting	cutting	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kept	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 richer	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 richer	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 silk	det
26	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 richer	nsubj
27	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 silk	acl
28	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 fired	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 richer	cc
30	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 richer	conj
31	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 inch	det
32	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 richer	nsubj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fire up	participle	the proud lady			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	go	past · progressive	the proud lady not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the proud lady not said here	something		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic
4	keep	participle · passive		the scissors	cutting	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on cutting=Location
5	grow	gerund	the silk not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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