The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 110
The snowflakes grew larger and larger till they looked like great white birds.
Who acts: snowflakes · What happens: grow, look
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snowflakes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 snowflakes | det |
| 2 | snowflakes | snowflake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 larger | cc |
| 6 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 larger | conj |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 looked | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | advcl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 birds | case |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 birds | amod |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 birds | amod |
| 13 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 looked | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the snowflakes | large property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | snowflakes = snowflake | like great white birds | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/8/110/