The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 8
Of food she got little or none, and grew pale and thin, and was nearly always weeping and sad.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: get, grow, weep · To what, where: little
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 food | case |
| 2 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 none | cc |
| 7 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 5 little | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 grew | cc |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 11 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grew | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thin | cc |
| 13 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pale | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 weeping | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 weeping | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 weeping | aux |
| 17 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 19 weeping | advmod |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 weeping | advmod |
| 19 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 grew | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sad | cc |
| 21 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 weeping | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | daughter | little | of food | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | grow | past | daughter not said here | pale property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | weep | past · progressive | daughter not said here | always, nearly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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