The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 87

So the boy throve and grew big, and in the meantime all prospered with the miller, and in a few years he was richer than he had ever been before.

Who acts: boy throve, miller · What happens: grow, prosper, be · To what, where: meantime

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (boy throve, miller), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 grew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 throve	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 throve	compound
4	throve	throve	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 grew	cc
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grew	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 prospered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 prospered	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 meantime	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 meantime	det
12	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 prospered	obl
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 prospered	advmod
14	prospered	prosper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grew	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 miller	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 miller	det
17	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 prospered	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 richer	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 richer	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 years	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 years	det
22	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 years	amod
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 richer	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 richer	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 richer	cop
26	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 grew	conj
27	than	than	SCONJ	_	32 before	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 before	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 before	aux
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 before	advmod
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 before	cop
32	before	before	ADV	_	26 richer	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the boy throve			big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	prosper	past	the boy throve not said here	the meantime		with the miller; all property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meantime=Location
3	is	past	miller		year	rich property	tree rules
4	is	past · perfect	miller		ever	before 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 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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