The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 44
And the aspens grew as no aspens had ever grown before.
Who acts: aspens · What happens: grow · To what, where: aspens
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 (aspens), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 grew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 aspens | det |
| 3 | aspens | aspen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 grown | mark |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 aspens | det |
| 7 | aspens | aspen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 grown | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grown | aux |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 grown | advmod |
| 10 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 grew | ccomp |
| 11 | before | before | ADV | _ | 10 grown | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the aspens | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grow | past · perfect · passive | no aspens | ever | before property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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