The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 107

She had no cares or troubles of any sort, and every day her tasks became easier, and the years that had gone before seemed more and more like a bad dream.

Who acts: lady, tasks, years · What happens: have, become, go, seem, trouble, task · To what, where: cares, sort

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, tasks, years), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 cares	det
4	cares	care	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 troubles	cc
6	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cares	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 sort	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 sort	det
9	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 troubles	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 became	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 became	cc
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 became	obl:unmarked
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 tasks	nmod:poss
15	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 became	nsubj
16	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
17	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 became	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seemed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 seemed	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 years	det
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 seemed	nsubj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 gone	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 gone	aux
24	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 years	acl:relcl
25	before	before	ADV	_	24 gone	advmod
26	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 became	conj
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 seemed	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 more	cc
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 more	conj
30	like	like	ADP	_	33 dream	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 dream	det
32	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 dream	amod
33	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seemed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	lady	no cares or troubles of any sort			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Patient
2	become	past	lady's tasks		day	easy property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	go	past · perfect	the years			before property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seem	past	the years			like a bad dream	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	trouble			any sort			nom trouble «cognition transitive»: of=patient
6	task		lady				nom task «act 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 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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