The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 21

And, better still, every movement of the girl, just growing out of childhood, was also reflected in the wonderful glass.

Who acts: girl · What happens: grow out, reflect, move · To what, where: childhood, movement, wonderful glass, girl

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 reflected	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 reflected	punct
3	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 reflected	advmod
4	still	still	ADV	_	3 better	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 movement	punct
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 movement	det
7	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reflected	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 girl	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 movement	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 growing	punct
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 growing	advmod
13	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 girl	acl
14	out	out	ADP	_	16 childhood	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 childhood	case
16	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 growing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 movement	punct
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 reflected	aux:pass
19	also	also	ADV	_	20 reflected	advmod
20	reflected	reflect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 glass	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 glass	det
23	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 glass	amod
24	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reflected	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 reflected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow out	gerund	the girl not said here	childhood			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location childhood=Theme
2	reflect	past · passive		every movement of the girl	the wonderful glass	well property	tree rules
3	move			the girl			nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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