The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 35

And none was bigger than the other, but each was smaller than the other, and every one was more noisy and more impudent and more daring than the rest, and Stan gazed and grew cold with horror as he realised that they all belonged to him.

Who acts: none, each, one, Stan, children · What happens: be, dare, gaze, grow, realise, belong · To what, where: Stan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none, each, one, Stan), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 bigger	cc
2	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 bigger	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bigger	cop
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 other	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 other	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bigger	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 smaller	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 smaller	cc
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 smaller	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 smaller	cop
12	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 bigger	conj
13	than	than	ADP	_	15 other	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 other	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 smaller	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 noisy	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 noisy	cc
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 noisy	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 noisy	cop
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 noisy	advmod
22	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 smaller	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 impudent	cc
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 impudent	advmod
25	impudent	impudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 noisy	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 daring	cc
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 daring	advmod
28	daring	dare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 noisy	conj
29	than	than	ADP	_	31 rest	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rest	det
31	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 daring	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 gazed	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 gazed	cc
34	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 gazed	nsubj
35	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 smaller	parataxis
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 grew	cc
37	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 gazed	conj
38	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 grew	xcomp
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 horror	case
40	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 grew	obl
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 realised	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 realised	nsubj
43	realised	realise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 grew	advcl
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 belonged	mark
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 belonged	nsubj
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 they	det
47	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 realised	ccomp
48	to	to	ADP	_	49 him	case
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 belonged	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bigger	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	none		than the other; big property	tree rules
2	is	past	each		than the other; small property	tree rules
3	is	past	every one		noisy property	tree rules
4	be		every one not said here			tree rules
5	dare	gerund	every one not said here		than the rest	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	gaze	past	Stan			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
7	grow	past	Stan not said here		with horror; cold property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	realise	past	Stan			tree rules
9	belong	past	children = child	Stan		vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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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