The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 84

But the two brothers had grown quite green with envy, and only declared the more that Ferko was nothing but a wicked magician.

Who acts: two brothers, Ferko · What happens: grow, declare, be · To what, where: nothing

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 (two brothers, Ferko), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 grown	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 brothers	nummod
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grown	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grown	aux
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 green	advmod
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grown	xcomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 envy	case
10	envy	envy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 green	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 declared	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 declared	cc
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 declared	advmod
14	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grown	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 more	det
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 declared	advmod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 nothing	mark
18	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 nothing	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 nothing	cop
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 declared	advcl
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 magician	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 magician	det
23	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 magician	amod
24	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 nothing	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past · perfect	the two brothers		green property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	declare speech: other	past	the two brothers not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	Ferko	nothing		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 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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