The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 88
But in any case, night after night he came back, only to find her growing wiser and wiser.
Who acts: man · What happens: come back, find, grow · To what, where: case
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 (man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 case | case |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 case | det |
| 4 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 night | punct |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 case | appos |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 night | nmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 find | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 came | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 growing | nmod:poss |
| 17 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 find | xcomp |
| 18 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 growing | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wiser | cc |
| 20 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 wiser | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | man | any case | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in case=Location | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | man not said here | wise property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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