The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 34

At last it began to grow dusk, and the sun sank behind the mountains; gradually it became cooler on the hill, and the grass grew wet with dew.

Who acts: dew, sun, grass · What happens: begin, grow, sink, become · To what, where: last, mountains, hill

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dew, sun, grass), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 began	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 grow	mark
6	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grow	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sank	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sank	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sank	nsubj
12	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	advcl
13	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 mountains	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mountains	det
15	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sank	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 became	punct
17	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	19 became	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 became	nsubj
19	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
20	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 became	xcomp
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 hill	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hill	det
23	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 became	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 grew	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 grew	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 grass	det
27	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grew	nsubj
28	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 became	conj
29	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 grew	xcomp
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 dew	case
31	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grew	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	dew	last			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	grow	to-infinitive	dew not said here		dusk		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sink	past	the sun	the mountains			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	become	past	dew	the hill		cool, gradually property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	grow	past	the grass			with dew; wet property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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