The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 171

As she grew older, the little gypsy became much more remarkable for strength and cunning than for sense or beauty.

Who acts: woman, little gypsy · What happens: grow, become

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, little gypsy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:3097): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 grew	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 became	advcl
4	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grew	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gypsy	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gypsy	amod
8	gypsy	gypsy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 became	nsubj
9	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 remarkable	advmod
12	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 became	xcomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 strength	case
14	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 remarkable	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cunning	cc
16	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 strength	conj
17	than	than	ADP	_	19 sense	case
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 sense	case
19	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 remarkable	obl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 beauty	cc
21	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sense	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	woman					old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	past	the little gypsy					remarkable 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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