The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 108

But the happier she grew the deeper was her wonder at everything around her, and the more firmly she was persuaded that some great unknown power must be at the bottom of it all.

Who acts: lady, deeper, some · What happens: grow, be, persuade, power · To what, where: wonder, everything, lady, bottom

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, deeper, some), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 grew	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 happier	det
3	happier	happy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 grew	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wonder	det
7	deeper	deeper	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 wonder	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wonder	cop
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wonder	nmod:poss
10	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 everything	case
12	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 wonder	nmod
13	around	around	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 everything	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 persuaded	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 persuaded	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 more	det
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 firmly	advmod
19	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	22 persuaded	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 persuaded	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 persuaded	aux:pass
22	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 grew	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 bottom	mark
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 power	nsubj
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 power	amod
26	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 power	amod
27	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bottom	parataxis
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 bottom	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 bottom	cop
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 bottom	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bottom	det
32	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 persuaded	advcl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bottom	nmod
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 it	det
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	lady				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	deeper	lady's wonder	everything		tree rules
3	persuade	past · passive		lady		firmly property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	power		some				tree rules
5	is	must			the bottom	of bottom	tree rules

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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