The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 128

The years passed like the wind for Elsa, and she grew into a lovely woman, with a knowledge of many things that she would never have learned in her native village; but Kisika was still the same young girl that she had been on the day of her first meeting with Elsa.

Who acts: years, greed, Kisika · What happens: pass, grow, not learn, be · To what, where: many things, native village, same young girl

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 (years, greed, Kisika), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 years	det
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 wind	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 Elsa	case
8	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grew	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 grew	nsubj
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
13	into	into	ADP	_	16 woman	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 woman	det
15	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woman	amod
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grew	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 knowledge	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 knowledge	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 knowledge	det
20	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grew	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 things	case
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 things	amod
23	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 knowledge	nmod
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 learned	obj
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 learned	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 learned	aux
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 learned	advmod
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 learned	aux
29	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 things	acl:relcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 village	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 village	nmod:poss
32	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 village	amod
33	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 learned	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 girl	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 girl	cc
36	Kisika	Kisika	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 girl	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 girl	cop
38	still	still	ADV	_	42 girl	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 girl	det
40	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 girl	amod
41	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 girl	amod
42	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	parataxis
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 meeting	mark
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 meeting	nsubj
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 meeting	aux
46	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	53 meeting	cop
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 day	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 day	det
49	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 meeting	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	53 meeting	case
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 meeting	nmod:poss
52	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	53 meeting	amod
53	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 girl	nmod
54	with	with	ADP	_	55 Elsa	case
55	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 meeting	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	the years				like the wind; for Elsa	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	greed				into a lovely woman result; with a knowledge of many things	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into woman=Result
3	not learn	would · perfect	greed	many things	greed's native village			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic
4	is a	past	Kisika	the same young girl		still		tree rules
5	is	past · perfect	greed			day	of greed's first meeting; with Elsa	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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