The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 146

But now the child grew restless and cried, because it missed its mother’s care.

Who acts: child, place, mother · What happens: grow, cry, miss, care · To what, where: care

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, place, mother), 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	_	5 grew	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 grew	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	restless	restless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grew	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cried	cc
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 missed	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 missed	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 missed	nsubj
12	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	conj
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 care	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 mother	case
16	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 missed	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the child		now	restless property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	the child not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	miss	past	place	place's mother's care			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer care=Stimulus
4	care		place's mother				nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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