The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 41

As the days went on, the Queen and the little Princess grew thinner and thinner, for their hard-hearted gaoler gave them every day only three boiled peas and a tiny morsel of black bread, so they were always terribly hungry.

Who acts: days, Queen, hearted gaoler, King · What happens: go on, grow, give, boil, be · To what, where: three boiled peas, King

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days, Queen, hearted gaoler, King), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 went	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 days	det
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 grew	advcl
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Queen	det
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 grew	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Princess	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princess	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Princess	amod
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Queen	conj
13	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	thinner	thin	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 grew	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 thinner	cc
16	thinner	thin	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 thinner	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gave	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 gave	mark
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 gaoler	nmod:poss
20	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hearted	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 hard	punct
22	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 gaoler	amod
23	gaoler	gaoler	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gave	nsubj
24	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 grew	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 gave	iobj
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gave	obl:unmarked
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 three	advmod
29	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 peas	nummod
30	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 peas	amod
31	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 gave	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 morsel	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 morsel	det
34	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 morsel	amod
35	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 peas	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 bread	case
37	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 bread	amod
38	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 morsel	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 hungry	punct
40	so	so	ADV	_	45 hungry	advmod
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 hungry	nsubj
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 hungry	cop
43	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	45 hungry	advmod
44	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	45 hungry	advmod
45	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grew	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	the days					vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	the Queen and the little Princess				thin property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	past	King's hearted gaoler	three boiled peas and a tiny morsel of black bread	King	day		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient pea=Theme
4	boil	participle						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is	past	King				always, hungry, terribly property	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/41/