The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 101
And every day Burchard grew worse, and watched his end approaching.
Who acts: day, end · What happens: grow, watch, approach · To what, where: end
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, end), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 grew | cc |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | Burchard | Burchard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 day | appos |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 grew | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 watched | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 watched | cc |
| 9 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grew | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 end | nmod:poss |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 watched | obj |
| 12 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 watched | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | every day | bad property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | watch | past | every day not said here | Burchard's end | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | approach | gerund | Burchard's end not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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