The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 69

This sudden illness, which every instant became worse, made him very uneasy.

Who acts: sudden illness · What happens: instant, become, make · To what, where: illness

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 (sudden illness), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 illness	det
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 illness	amod
3	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 became	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 instant	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 instant	nsubj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 instant	det
7	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 illness	conj
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 became	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 became	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	obj
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 uneasy	advmod
14	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 made	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	instant		this sudden illness and every instant			tree rules
2	become	past	this sudden illness and every instant		bad property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	make	past	this sudden illness and every instant not said here	illness	uneasy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/42/69/