The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 93
In time she grew quite fond of him, he was so kind and gentle.
Who acts: pig, husband · What happens: grow, be · To what, where: time
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pig, husband), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 time | case |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kind | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 time | acl:relcl |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 fond | advmod |
| 6 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grew | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fond | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kind | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 kind | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 kind | advmod |
| 13 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gentle | cc |
| 15 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kind | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | pig | time not said here | fond property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | husband | time | kind property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | husband not said here | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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