The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 72

When they grew older, things became worse and worse, and at last one day as they were walking through a wood the elder youth seized hold of the other, tied him to a tree, and went on his way hoping that the boy might starve to death.

Who acts: sons, things, elder youth, boy · What happens: grow, become, walk, seize, tie, go · To what, where: last one day, wood, hold, youth, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, things, elder youth, boy), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 grew	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 became	advcl
4	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grew	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 became	nsubj
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 became	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 worse	cc
10	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 worse	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tied	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tied	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 day	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 day	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 day	compound
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tied	obl
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 walking	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 walking	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 walking	aux
20	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 day	acl
21	through	through	ADP	_	23 wood	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 wood	det
23	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 walking	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 youth	det
25	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 youth	amod
26	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 day	nmod
27	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 youth	acl
28	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seized	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 other	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 other	det
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hold	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 day	punct
33	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 became	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tied	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 tree	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 tree	det
37	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tied	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 went	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 went	cc
40	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 became	conj
41	on	on	ADP	_	43 way	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 way	nmod:poss
43	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 went	obl
44	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 went	advcl
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 starve	mark
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 boy	det
47	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 starve	nsubj
48	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 starve	aux
49	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 hoping	ccomp
50	to	to	ADP	_	51 death	case
51	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 starve	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	sons = son				old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	past	things				bad property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	walk	past · progressive	sons = son	last one day the elder youth not said here	a wood			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent day=Theme through wood=Trajectory
4	seize	participle	the elder youth not said here	hold of the other				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
5	tie	past	things not said here	youth		day	to a tree	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to tree=Co-Patient
6	go	past	things not said here		youth's way			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
7	hope	gerund	things not said here					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	starve	might	the boy				to death	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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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