The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 5

And all the while the emperor’s sons were growing up.

Who acts: sons · What happens: grow up

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (sons), 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	_	10 growing	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 growing	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 all	det
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 growing	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 emperor	det
6	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sons	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 emperor	case
8	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 growing	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 growing	aux
10	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 growing	compound:prt
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 growing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	past · progressive	the emperor's sons						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: 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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