The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 128

At last he grew a little uneasy, and cried loudly, ‘Man and maid! what has become of you?’

Who acts: prince · What happens: grow, cry, become · To what, where: last, Man

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (prince), 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 grew	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 uneasy	obl:unmarked
7	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cried	cc
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
11	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	10 cried	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Man	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 Man	punct
14	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 maid	cc
16	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Man	conj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 Man	punct
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 become	nsubj
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 become	aux
20	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 cried	acl:relcl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 become	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	prince		last	uneasy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
2	cry speech: express	past	prince not said here	Man and maid		loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	become	present · perfect				of you	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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