The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 49

Every day the little girl seemed to grow prettier, and people used to say she would soon be as beautiful as her godmother, but no one knew, except the nurse, that at night, when the child slept, a strange and lovely lady bent over her.

Who acts: little girl, people, girl, one, child · What happens: seem, grow, use, say, be, know · To what, where: strange lady · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little girl, people, girl, one), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seemed	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girl	amod
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seemed	nsubj
6	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 grow	mark
8	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 seemed	xcomp
9	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 grow	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 used	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 used	cc
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 used	nsubj
13	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seemed	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 say	mark
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 used	xcomp
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 beautiful	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 beautiful	aux
18	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 beautiful	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 beautiful	cop
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 beautiful	advmod
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 say	ccomp
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 godmother	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 godmother	nmod:poss
24	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beautiful	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 knew	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 knew	cc
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 knew	nsubj
29	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seemed	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 nurse	punct
31	except	except	ADP	_	33 nurse	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 nurse	det
33	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 knew	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 that	punct
35	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 nurse	nmod
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 night	case
37	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 knew	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 slept	punct
39	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	42 slept	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 child	det
41	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 slept	nsubj
42	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seemed	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 lady	punct
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 lady	det
45	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 lady	amod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 lovely	cc
47	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 strange	conj
48	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 slept	obl
49	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 lady	acl
50	over	over	ADP	_	51 her	case
51	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 bent	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the little girl		day		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	grow	to-infinitive	the little girl not said here			pretty property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	use	past	people				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	people not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	would	girl			as girl's godmother; beautiful, soon property	tree rules
6	know	past	no one		night	except the nurse that	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	sleep	past	the child	a strange lady			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	bend	participle		a strange lady not said here		over nurse	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over she=Location

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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