The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 24
Now the others out on the moor grew hungrier and hungrier.
Who acts: others · What happens: grow
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 grew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 others | det |
| 3 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 others | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 moor | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moor | det |
| 7 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 others | nmod |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | hungrier | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 grew | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hungrier | cc |
| 11 | hungrier | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 hungrier | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the others on the moor | now | hungry 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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