The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 25

For a little while he even forgot to notice how dirty he was getting, but this did not last long, for his hair became matted with dirt and hung over his eyes, and his pilgrim’s dress was a mass of horrible rags and tatters.

Who acts: Don, this, hair, dress · What happens: forget, not notice, get, not last, become, mat · To what, where: eyes, mass

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Don, this, hair, dress), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 little	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 little	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 forgot	obl
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 forgot	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 forgot	nsubj
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 forgot	advmod
7	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 notice	mark
9	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 forgot	xcomp
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 dirty	advmod
11	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 notice	advcl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 getting	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 getting	aux
14	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 dirty	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 last	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 last	cc
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 last	nsubj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 last	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 last	advmod
20	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 forgot	conj
21	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 last	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 became	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 became	mark
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hair	nmod:poss
25	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 became	nsubj
26	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 last	parataxis
27	matted	mat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 became	xcomp
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 dirt	case
29	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 matted	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 hung	cc
31	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 became	conj
32	over	over	ADP	_	34 eyes	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 eyes	nmod:poss
34	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 hung	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 mass	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 mass	cc
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 pilgrim	nmod:poss
38	pilgrim	pilgrim	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 dress	nmod:poss
39	’s	's	PART	_	38 pilgrim	case
40	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 mass	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 mass	cop
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 mass	det
43	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hung	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 rags	case
45	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 rags	amod
46	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 mass	nmod
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 tatters	cc
48	tatters	tatter	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 rags	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	forget	past	Don			for a little	tree rules
2	not notice	to-infinitive	Don not said here				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	get	past · progressive	Don				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	not last	past · do-support	this			long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
5	become	past	Don's hair				tree rules
6	mat	participle	Don's hair not said here			with dirt	tree rules
7	hang	past	Don's hair not said here		Don's eyes		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over eye=Location
8	is a	past	Don's pilgrim's dress	a mass		of horrible rags and tatters	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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