The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 11

At last one wet spring the mother caught cold, and though in the beginning she did not pay much attention to it, she gradually grew more and more ill, and knew that she had not long to live.

Who acts: mother, girl · What happens: catch, not pay, grow, know, live · To what, where: much attention, attention

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, girl), 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	At	at	ADP	_	5 spring	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spring	compound
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spring	amod
5	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 caught	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mother	det
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 caught	nsubj
8	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 caught	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pay	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 pay	cc
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 beginning	mark
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 beginning	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 beginning	det
15	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pay	advcl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pay	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 pay	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 pay	advmod
19	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 caught	conj
20	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 attention	amod
21	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pay	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pay	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 grew	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 grew	nsubj
26	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	27 grew	advmod
27	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 caught	conj
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 grew	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 ill	cc
30	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 ill	advmod
31	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 more	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 knew	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 knew	cc
34	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 grew	conj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 long	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 long	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 long	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 long	advmod
39	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 knew	ccomp
40	to	to	PART	_	41 live	mark
41	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 long	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	the mother			spring	cold property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not pay	past · do-support	girl	much attention	attention			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
3	grow	past	girl				gradually property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	know	past	girl not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	live	to-infinitive	girl not said here					vn exist-47.1-1 «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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