The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 6

But the sand hill only drove the pond a little farther away, and its waters seemed to increase instead of diminishing.

Who acts: sand hill, waters · What happens: drive, seem, increase, diminish · To what, where: pond

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sand hill, waters), 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 drove	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hill	det
3	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hill	compound
4	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drove	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 drove	advmod
6	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pond	det
8	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drove	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 little	det
10	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 farther	advmod
11	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 away	advmod
12	away	away	ADV	_	6 drove	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seemed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 seemed	cc
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 waters	nmod:poss
16	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 seemed	nsubj
17	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 drove	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 increase	mark
19	increase	increase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 seemed	xcomp
20	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 diminishing	mark
21	of	of	ADP	_	20 instead	fixed
22	diminishing	diminish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 increase	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drive	past	the sand hill	the pond	away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme pond=Trajectory
2	seem	past	hill's waters			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	increase	to-infinitive	hill's waters not said here			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	diminish	gerund	hill's waters not said here			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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