The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 18

He thought, in fact, that the pile of wood rather grew bigger than smaller, in spite of what he took off it; so he let his hands fall by his side, and dried the sweat from his forehead, and was ill at ease, for he knew that it would be bad for him if he was not finished with the work before the witch came home.

Who acts: prince, pile, hands, witch · What happens: think, grow, take off, let, fall, dry · To what, where: fact, spite, pile, sweat, forehead, ease · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, pile, hands, witch), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fact	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 fact	case
5	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grew	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 grew	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pile	det
9	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grew	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 wood	case
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pile	nmod
12	rather	rather	ADV	_	13 grew	advmod
13	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
14	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 grew	xcomp
15	than	than	ADP	_	16 smaller	case
16	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 bigger	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 spite	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 spite	case
19	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grew	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 what	case
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 spite	nmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 took	nsubj
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 what	acl:relcl
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 took	compound:prt
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 took	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 let	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 let	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 let	nsubj
29	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hands	nmod:poss
31	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 fall	nsubj
32	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 let	xcomp
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 side	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 side	nmod:poss
35	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fall	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 dried	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 dried	cc
38	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 sweat	det
40	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 dried	obj
41	from	from	ADP	_	43 forehead	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 forehead	nmod:poss
43	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 dried	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 ill	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 ill	cc
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 ill	cop
47	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 dried	conj
48	at	at	ADP	_	49 ease	case
49	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 ill	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 knew	punct
51	for	for	SCONJ	_	53 knew	mark
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 knew	nsubj
53	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 dried	conj
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 bad	mark
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 bad	nsubj
56	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 bad	aux
57	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 bad	cop
58	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 knew	ccomp
59	for	for	ADP	_	60 him	case
60	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 bad	obl
61	if	if	SCONJ	_	65 finished	mark
62	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 finished	nsubj
63	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 finished	aux:pass
64	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	65 finished	advmod
65	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 knew	advcl
66	with	with	ADP	_	68 work	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 work	det
68	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 finished	obl
69	before	before	SCONJ	_	72 came	mark
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 witch	det
71	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 came	nsubj
72	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 finished	advcl
73	home	home	ADV	_	72 came	advmod
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	prince		fact		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow	past	the pile of wood		spite	big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spite=Location
3	take off	past	prince	pile			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	let	past	prince				tree rules
5	fall	present	prince's hands			by prince's side	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by side=Location
6	dry	past		the sweat	prince's forehead		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sweat=Result
7	is	past			ease	ill property	tree rules
8	know	past	prince				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	is	would	pile			for prince; bad property	tree rules
10	not finish a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		prince		with the work	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: subject=Eventuality with work=Subeventuality
11	come	past	the witch			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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