The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 14

‘Every day I gazed on the lovely fruit, which became gradually more and more tempting-looking, and it was all I could do not to break the magician’s commands.

Who acts: I, lovely fruit, magician · What happens: gaze, become, look, not break, command · To what, where: commands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (I, lovely fruit, magician), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 gazed	punct
2	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gazed	obl:unmarked
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 gazed	nsubj
5	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 fruit	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fruit	det
8	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fruit	amod
9	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gazed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 became	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 became	nsubj
12	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fruit	acl:relcl
13	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 became	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 looking	cc
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 looking	advmod
17	tempting	tempting	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 looking	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 tempting	punct
19	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 more	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 all	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 all	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 all	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 all	cop
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 gazed	conj
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 break	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 break	aux
27	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 break	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 break	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 break	mark
30	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 all	acl:relcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 magician	det
32	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 commands	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 magician	case
34	commands	command	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 break	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gazed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	gaze	past	I		day	on the lovely fruit	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on fruit=Theme
2	become	past	the lovely fruit				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	look	gerund	the lovely fruit not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	not break	could · do-support	I	the magician's commands			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer command=Patient
5	command		the magician				nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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