The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 32

But early that morning, when the stars were growing pale in the sky, two little boys with golden hair and stars on their foreheads were born to Laptitza.

Who acts: stars · What happens: grow, bear · To what, where: sky, foreheads, Laptitza

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stars), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 morning	cc
2	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 morning	advmod
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 morning	det
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 growing	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stars	det
8	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 growing	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 growing	aux
10	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 morning	acl
11	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 growing	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 sky	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sky	det
14	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 growing	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 boys	punct
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 boys	nummod
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 boys	amod
18	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sky	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 hair	case
20	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hair	amod
21	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 boys	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stars	cc
23	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hair	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 foreheads	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 foreheads	nmod:poss
26	foreheads	forehead	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 born	nsubj:pass
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 born	aux:pass
28	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 growing	advcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 Laptitza	case
30	Laptitza	Laptitza	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 born	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · progressive	the stars			the sky and two little boys with golden hair and stars		pale property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location
2	bear	past · passive		boys's foreheads	Laptitza				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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