The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 73

Day by day her heart grew heavier and her cheeks paler, and one evening, when she had waited for him in vain, she put her water-pot on her shoulder and went slowly down to the spring.

Who acts: Day, Tephany · What happens: grow, wait, put, go down · To what, where: vain, water pot, shoulder

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Day, Tephany), 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	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grew	nsubj
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 day	case
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Day	nmod
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 heart	nmod:poss
5	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 grew	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 paler	cc
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cheeks	nmod:poss
10	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 paler	nsubj
11	paler	pale	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 heavier	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 evening	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 evening	cc
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 evening	nummod
15	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 waited	punct
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 waited	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 waited	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 waited	aux
20	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 evening	acl:relcl
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 waited	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 vain	case
24	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 waited	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 put	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 put	nsubj
27	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grew	conj
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 pot	nmod:poss
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pot	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 water	punct
31	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 shoulder	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 shoulder	nmod:poss
34	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 went	cc
36	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 put	conj
37	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	36 went	advmod
38	down	down	ADV	_	36 went	advmod
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 spring	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 spring	det
41	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 went	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Day by day			evening	heavy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wait	past · perfect	Tephany		vain		for Denis	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vain=Location
3	put	past	Tephany	Tephany's water pot	Tephany's shoulder			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme on shoulder=Destination
4	go down	past	Tephany not said here			spring	down, slowly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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