The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 88

It had been dark there before, but now it became darker still.

Who acts: light · What happens: be, become

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dark	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 dark	cop
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 dark	advmod
6	before	before	ADV	_	4 dark	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 became	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 became	cc
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 became	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 became	nsubj
11	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	conj
12	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 became	xcomp
13	still	still	ADV	_	11 became	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	light			there		before, dark property	tree rules
2	become	past	light				now; still	dark property	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 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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