The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 81

And the fish grew fat and big, but the girl grew thin and weak, and the loads of wood felt heavier every day, and at last her sisters noticed it.

Who acts: fish, girl, loads, last sisters · What happens: grow, feel, notice · To what, where: load

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish, girl, loads, last sisters), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 grew	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 big	cc
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fat	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grew	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 grew	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grew	nsubj
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
13	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grew	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 weak	cc
15	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thin	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 felt	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 felt	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 loads	det
19	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 felt	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 wood	case
21	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 loads	nmod
22	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
23	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 felt	xcomp
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 day	det
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 felt	obl:unmarked
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 noticed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 noticed	cc
28	at	at	ADP	_	31 sisters	case
29	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sisters	amod
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 sisters	nmod:poss
31	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 noticed	nsubj
32	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 noticed	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the fish			fat property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	the girl			thin property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	feel	past	the loads of wood		day	heavy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	notice	past	girl's last sisters	load			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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