The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 146

So the other trolls had to come and wash, but, the more they did, the blacker and uglier grew the shirt, until at length it was as black as if it had been up the chimney.

Who acts: other trolls, spots, blacker, shirt · What happens: have, come, wash, do, grow, be · To what, where: shirt, length

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 (other trolls, spots, blacker, shirt), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trolls	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trolls	amod
4	trolls	troll	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 come	mark
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wash	cc
9	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 come	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 did	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 did	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 but	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 more	det
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 did	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 did	nsubj
16	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 blacker	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 blacker	det
19	blacker	black	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 grew	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 uglier	cc
21	uglier	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 blacker	conj
22	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 did	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 shirt	det
24	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 grew	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 black	punct
26	until	until	SCONJ	_	32 black	mark
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 length	case
28	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 black	obl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 black	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 black	cop
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 black	advmod
32	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 grew	conj
33	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	40 chimney	case
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 as	fixed
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 chimney	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 chimney	aux
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 chimney	cop
38	up	up	ADP	_	40 chimney	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 chimney	det
40	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 black	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the other trolls				tree rules
2	come	to-infinitive	the other trolls not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wash	infinitive	the other trolls not said here				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do	past	spots = spot				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	grow	past	the blacker	the shirt			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shirt=Theme
6	is	past	shirt		length	black property	tree rules
7	is	past · perfect	shirt			as the chimney	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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