The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 32
King Peridor had grown more and more unhappy as time went on, and at last he fell so ill that it seemed as if his days were numbered.
Who acts: King, Saphir, it · What happens: grow, go on, fall, seem, number · To what, where: last, days
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 (King, Saphir, it), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grown | nsubj |
| 2 | Peridor | Peridor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grown | aux |
| 4 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 grown | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 unhappy | cc |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 unhappy | advmod |
| 8 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grown | conj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 went | mark |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 unhappy | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fell | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grown | conj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 ill | advmod |
| 20 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fell | xcomp |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 seemed | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 seemed | nsubj |
| 23 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 ill | advcl |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 numbered | mark |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 numbered | mark |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 days | nmod:poss |
| 27 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 numbered | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 numbered | aux:pass |
| 29 | numbered | number | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 seemed | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · perfect | King | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go on | past | King not said here | time | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | Saphir | last | ill property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location | |||
| 4 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | number a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | Saphir's days | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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