The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 96

It was a long way to her own house, and the chest seemed to grow heavier at every step.

Who acts: bye, chest · What happens: be, seem, grow · To what, where: long way

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bye, chest), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 way	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 house	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 house	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 house	amod
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 way	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seemed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 seemed	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chest	det
13	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seemed	nsubj
14	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 way	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 grow	mark
16	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 seemed	xcomp
17	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 grow	xcomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 step	case
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 step	det
20	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grow	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bye	a long way	to way's own house	tree rules
2	seem	past	the chest	a long way not said here		tree rules
3	grow	to-infinitive	the chest not said here		at every step; heavy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at step=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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