The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 114
But Snowdrop was growing prettier and prettier every day, and when she was seven years old she was as beautiful as she could be, and fairer even than the Queen herself.
Who acts: Snowdrop · What happens: grow, be
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snowdrop), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 prettier | cc |
| 2 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 growing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 growing | aux |
| 4 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 prettier | csubj |
| 5 | prettier | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 prettier | cc |
| 7 | prettier | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 prettier | conj |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prettier | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 beautiful | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 beautiful | cc |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 old | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 old | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 old | cop |
| 15 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 old | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 beautiful | advcl |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 beautiful | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 beautiful | cop |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prettier | conj |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 be | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 be | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 be | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 beautiful | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fairer | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fairer | cc |
| 28 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 prettier | conj |
| 29 | even | even | ADV | _ | 32 Queen | advmod |
| 30 | than | than | ADP | _ | 32 Queen | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Queen | det |
| 32 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 fairer | obl |
| 33 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 Queen | appos |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prettier | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · progressive | Snowdrop | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | SNOWDROP | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | SNOWDROP | beautiful property | tree rules |
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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