The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 75
They grew thicker and thicker and the scent nearly overpowered the boy.
Who acts: pigs, scent · What happens: grow, overpower · To what, where: boy
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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 (pigs, scent), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thicker | thick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 grew | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 thicker | cc |
| 5 | thicker | thick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 thicker | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 overpowered | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 scent | det |
| 8 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 overpowered | nsubj |
| 9 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 10 overpowered | advmod |
| 10 | overpowered | overpower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grew | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 overpowered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | pigs = pig | thick property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | overpower | past | the scent | the boy | nearly property | 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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