The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 7

Then one morning the mother suddenly looked at the girl, and found that she had grown still more lovely than before.

Who acts: mother, wife · What happens: look, find, grow · Speech: someone speaks here

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, wife), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 looked	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 morning	nummod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looked	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mother	det
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looked	nsubj
6	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	7 looked	advmod
7	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 girl	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 found	cc
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 looked	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 grown	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 grown	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 grown	aux
17	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 found	ccomp
18	still	still	ADV	_	20 lovely	advmod
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 lovely	advmod
20	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grown	xcomp
21	than	than	ADP	_	22 before	case
22	before	before	ADV	_	20 lovely	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the mother	then; morning	at the girl; suddenly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at girl=Theme
2	find	past	the mother not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	grow	past · perfect	wife		lovely property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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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