The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 15
Matte and Maie grew fat on this fine living, and daily became richer.
Who acts: Matte · What happens: grow, become · To what, where: fat, fine living
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Matte), 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 | Matte | matte | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Maie | cc |
| 3 | Maie | Maie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Matte | conj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 living | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 living | det |
| 8 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 living | amod |
| 9 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 became | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 became | cc |
| 12 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 13 became | advmod |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 14 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 became | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Matte and Maie | fat | this fine living | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fat=Theme | |||
| 2 | become | past | Matte and Maie not said here | daily, rich property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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