The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 87

He fought against it hard, knowing how it would grieve the princess, but it grew on him stronger and stronger, till at length he became so sad that the princess inquired what was wrong.

Who acts: life, longing, princess · What happens: fight, know, grieve, grow, become, inquire · To what, where: princess, length · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, longing, princess), 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 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	against	against	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fought	obl
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 fought	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 knowing	punct
7	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 fought	advcl
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 grieve	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grieve	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 grieve	aux
11	grieve	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 knowing	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 princess	det
13	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grieve	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grew	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 grew	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 grew	nsubj
17	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fought	parataxis
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 grew	obl
20	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 grew	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stronger	cc
22	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 stronger	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 became	punct
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 became	mark
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 length	case
26	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 became	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 became	nsubj
28	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 grew	conj
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 sad	advmod
30	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 became	xcomp
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 inquired	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 princess	det
33	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 inquired	nsubj
34	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sad	advcl
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 wrong	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 wrong	cop
37	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 inquired	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fight	past	life			against longing; hard property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know	gerund	life not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	grieve	would	longing	the princess			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus princess=Experiencer
4	grow	past	longing			on life; strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location
5	become	past	life		length	sad property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	inquire speech: other	past	the princess				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past				wrong 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 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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