The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 111
This happened not only once but many times, till Peronnik grew so used to him that he never troubled to hide.
Who acts: This, Peronnik · What happens: happen, grow, use, not trouble, hide · To what, where: Peronnik
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Peronnik), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 once | advmod |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 once | advmod |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 happened | advmod |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 times | cc |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 times | amod |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grew | punct |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 grew | mark |
| 11 | Peronnik | Peronnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | conj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 used | advmod |
| 14 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 grew | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 used | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 troubled | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 troubled | nsubj |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 troubled | advmod |
| 20 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 used | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 hide | mark |
| 22 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 troubled | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | This | time | once property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | grow | past | Peronnik | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | use | participle | Peronnik not said here | Peronnik | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not trouble | past | Peronnik | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | hide | to-infinitive | Peronnik not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «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 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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