The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 105

For a moment the king and queen stared at their son, as if he had been unknown to them; he had grown so thin and weak during his illness that his shoulders were bowed like those of an old man.

Who acts: king · What happens: stare, be, grow, bow · To what, where: father, shoulders

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stared	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stared	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 queen	cc
7	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 king	conj
8	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 son	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stared	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 unknown	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 unknown	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 unknown	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 unknown	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 unknown	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 unknown	cop
18	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stared	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 unknown	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 grown	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 grown	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 grown	aux
24	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 stared	parataxis
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 thin	advmod
26	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grown	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 weak	cc
28	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grown	conj
29	during	during	ADP	_	31 illness	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 illness	nmod:poss
31	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 weak	obl
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 bowed	mark
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 shoulders	nmod:poss
34	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 bowed	nsubj:pass
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 bowed	aux:pass
36	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 weak	advcl
37	like	like	ADP	_	38 those	case
38	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	36 bowed	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 man	case
40	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 man	det
41	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 man	amod
42	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 those	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	stare	past	the king and queen			moment	at father's son	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at son=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	king		father		unknown property	tree rules
3	grow	past · perfect	king				thin property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bow	past · passive		king's shoulders			like those	vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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