The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 16

But bad times came, and they grew poorer and poorer, and the nights in which they went hungry to bed became more and more frequent.

Who acts: burner, nights · What happens: come, grow, go, become

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (burner, nights), 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	_	4 came	cc
2	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 times	amod
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl:unmarked
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grew	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grew	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
9	poorer	poor	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 grew	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 poorer	cc
11	poorer	poor	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 poorer	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 became	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 became	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 nights	det
15	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 became	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 went	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 nights	acl:relcl
20	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 went	xcomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 bed	case
22	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hungry	obl
23	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 became	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 frequent	cc
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 frequent	advmod
27	frequent	frequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 became	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	burner		poor property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past	burner	in the nights	hungry property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in which=Location
4	become	past	the nights			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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