The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 100

For a time they got on very well, but by and bye the donkey grew lazy and ungrateful for her master’s kindness, and ran away several miles into the heart of the forest, where she did nothing but eat and eat and eat, till she grew so fat she could hardly move.

Who acts: as, beast · What happens: get on, bye, grow, run away, do, eat · To what, where: time, donkey, several miles, heart, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (as, beast), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grew	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 time	acl:relcl
6	on	on	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 well	advmod
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 got	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grew	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 grew	cc
11	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 bye	mark
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bye	cc
13	bye	bye	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 grew	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 donkey	det
15	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bye	obj
16	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grew	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ungrateful	cc
19	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lazy	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	24 kindness	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 master	nmod:poss
22	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kindness	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 master	case
24	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lazy	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ran	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ran	cc
27	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 grew	conj
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 ran	advmod
29	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 miles	amod
30	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 ran	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 heart	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 heart	det
33	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ran	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 forest	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 forest	det
36	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heart	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 did	punct
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 did	advmod
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 did	nsubj
40	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 forest	acl:relcl
41	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	40 did	obj
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 eat	cc
43	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 nothing	conj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 eat	cc
45	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 eat	conj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 eat	cc
47	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 eat	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 grew	punct
49	till	till	SCONJ	_	51 grew	mark
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 grew	nsubj
51	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 eat	conj
52	so	so	ADV	_	53 fat	advmod
53	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 grew	xcomp
54	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 move	nsubj
55	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 move	aux
56	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	57 move	advmod
57	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 grew	parataxis
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get on	past	as = a	a time not said here			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus
2	bye	infinitive		the donkey				tree rules
3	grow	past				time	lazy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	run away	past		several miles	the heart of the forest		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent mile=Theme into heart=Trajectory
5	do	past	beast	nothing				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
6	eat	present	beast not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	eat	present	beast not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	eat	present	beast not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	grow	past	beast				fat property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	move	could	beast				hardly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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