The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 100
The desire grew day by day, and just because she knew she couldn’t possibly get any, she pined away and became quite pale and wretched.
Who acts: desire · What happens: grow, know, not get, pine away, become · To what, where: any · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (desire), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 desire | det |
| 2 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 knew | cc |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 knew | advmod |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 knew | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | parataxis |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 get | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 get | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 get | advmod |
| 16 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 17 get | advmod |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 knew | ccomp |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 get | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pined | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pined | nsubj |
| 21 | pined | pine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | parataxis |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 pined | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 became | cc |
| 24 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pined | conj |
| 25 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 26 pale | advmod |
| 26 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 became | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 wretched | cc |
| 28 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 pale | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the desire | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | desire | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not get | could | desire | any | possibly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer any=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | pine away | past | desire | away property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | become | past | desire not said here | pale 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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