The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 137
However, the Count grew worse and worse till he was given up by the doctors.
Who acts: Count, doctors · What happens: grow, give up · To what, where: Count
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 (Count, doctors), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 grew | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Count | det |
| 4 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 worse | cc |
| 8 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 worse | conj |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 given | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 given | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 given | aux:pass |
| 12 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 grew | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 given | compound:prt |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 doctors | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 doctors | det |
| 16 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 given | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the Count | bad, however property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give up | past · passive | the doctors | Count | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Source |
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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