The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 145

But she too had not had the shirt very long in her hands before it looked worse still, and, the more she washed it and rubbed it, the larger and blacker grew the spots.

Who acts: princess, shirt, larger · What happens: not have, look, wash, rub, grow · To what, where: shirt, spots

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, shirt, larger), 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	_	6 had	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
3	too	too	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 had	advmod
6	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shirt	det
8	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 long	advmod
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shirt	amod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 hands	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 long	obl
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 looked	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 looked	nsubj
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	advcl
17	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 looked	xcomp
18	still	still	ADV	_	16 looked	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 washed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 washed	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 and	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 more	det
23	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 washed	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 washed	nsubj
25	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 looked	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 washed	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 rubbed	cc
28	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 washed	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 rubbed	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 grew	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 grew	det
32	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 grew	nsubj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 blacker	cc
34	blacker	black	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 larger	conj
35	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 washed	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 spots	det
37	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 grew	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past · perfect	princess	the shirt			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Patient
2	look	past	shirt		still	bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	wash	past	princess	shirt			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	rub	past	princess not said here	shirt			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	grow	past	larger	the spots			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spot=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 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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