The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 30
As the days went on Tephany grew paler and paler, till everybody noticed it except her aunt.
Who acts: Tephany, everybody · What happens: go, grow, notice · To what, where: work
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tephany, everybody), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | obl |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 grew | mark |
| 6 | Tephany | Tephany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 grew | nsubj |
| 7 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | advcl |
| 8 | paler | pale | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 grew | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 paler | cc |
| 10 | paler | pale | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 paler | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 noticed | punct |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 noticed | mark |
| 13 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 noticed | nsubj |
| 14 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grew | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 noticed | obj |
| 16 | except | except | ADP | _ | 18 aunt | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 18 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 noticed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | Tephany | pale property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | notice | past | everybody | work | except Tephany's aunt | 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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