The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 5
Each day he grew more and more wretched, till at length he took to his bed and never got up again.
Who acts: couple · What happens: grow, take, not get up
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 (couple), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 grew | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wretched | cc |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 wretched | advmod |
| 8 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 more | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 10 | till | till | ADP | _ | 12 length | case |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 length | case |
| 12 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 bed | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bed | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 got | cc |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 got | advmod |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 got | compound:prt |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 got | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | couple | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | couple | till length | to couple's bed result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result | |||
| 3 | not get up | past | couple not said here | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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