The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 74

Then came the spring, then the summer, when the roses grew and smelt more beautifully than ever.

Who acts: spring, roses · What happens: come, grow, smelt

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 (spring, roses), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spring	det
4	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 summer	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 summer	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 summer	det
8	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grew	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 grew	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 roses	det
12	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 grew	nsubj
13	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 smelt	cc
15	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 grew	conj
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 beautifully	advmod
17	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	15 smelt	advmod
18	than	than	ADP	_	19 ever	case
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 beautifully	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the spring	then; summer		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	the roses			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	smelt	present	the roses not said here		beautifully 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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