The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 42

However, the wizard kept on offering her more and more for it, until at last the gold ring grew frightened, and changed itself into a grain of barley, which fell on the ground.

Who acts: wizard, gold ring, barley · What happens: keep, offer, grow, frighten, change, fall · To what, where: girl, ring, grain, ground

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wizard, gold ring, barley), 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 kept	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wizard	det
4	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	on	on	SCONJ	_	7 offering	mark
7	offering	offer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 kept	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 offering	obj
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 offering	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 more	cc
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 more	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 offering	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 last	punct
15	until	until	ADP	_	17 last	case
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kept	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ring	det
19	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ring	compound
20	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grew	nsubj
21	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 last	acl:relcl
22	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 grew	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 changed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 changed	cc
25	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	conj
26	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 changed	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 grain	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 grain	det
29	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 changed	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 barley	case
31	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grain	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fell	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 fell	nsubj
34	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 barley	acl:relcl
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 ground	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ground	det
37	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fell	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	participle	the wizard			however property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	offer	gerund	the wizard not said here	girl		for ring	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent she=Theme for it=Goal
3	grow	past	the gold ring				tree rules
4	frighten	participle	the gold ring not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	change	past	the wizard not said here	ring		into a grain of barley result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent itself=Patient into grain=Result
6	fall	past	barley		the ground		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location

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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