The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 29
And Snowflake grew fast; each hour as well as each day made a difference, and every day she became more and more beautiful.
Who acts: Snowflake, day · What happens: grow, make, become · To what, where: difference
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snowflake, day), 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 | _ | 3 grew | cc |
| 2 | Snowflake | Snowflake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 hour | punct |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 hour | det |
| 7 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 3 grew | advmod |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 as | fixed |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 as | fixed |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | nsubj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 difference | det |
| 15 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 became | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 became | cc |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 became | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 became | nsubj |
| 21 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 became | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 beautiful | cc |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 beautiful | advmod |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 more | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Snowflake | hour | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | past | each day | a difference | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difference=Product | ||||
| 3 | become | past | Snowflake | day | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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