The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 27
The children soon grew quite at their ease with him, and led their helpless guest a fearful life.
Who acts: children · What happens: grow, lead · To what, where: ease, helpless guest
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 grew | advmod |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 grew | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 ease | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ease | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ease | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 led | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 led | cc |
| 13 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 guest | nmod:poss |
| 15 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 guest | amod |
| 16 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 led | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 life | det |
| 18 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 life | amod |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 led | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the children | children's ease with beast | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at ease=Location | |||
| 2 | lead | past | the children not said here | children's helpless guest | tree rules |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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