The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 82

In every day they grew a year’s growth, and in every night another year’s growth, but at dawn, when the stars were fading, they grew three years’ growth in the twinkling of an eye.

Who acts: boys, stars, year, three years · What happens: grow, fade · To what, where: growth, twinkling

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 (boys, stars, year, three years), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 growth	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 year	case
9	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 growth	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 growth	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 night	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 growth	orphan
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 year	det
16	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 growth	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 year	case
18	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 grew	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 grew	cc
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 dawn	case
22	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 grew	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fading	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 fading	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stars	det
26	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fading	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 fading	aux
28	fading	fade	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 dawn	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dawn	punct
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 grew	nsubj
31	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	conj
32	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 years	nummod
33	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 growth	nmod:poss
34	’	's	PART	_	33 years	case
35	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 grew	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 twinkling	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 twinkling	det
38	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 grew	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 eye	case
40	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 eye	det
41	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 twinkling	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	boys = boy	a year's growth		day	another year's growth obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location growth=Theme
2	fade	past · progressive	the stars					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	grow	past	boys = boy	three years's growth	the twinkling of a eye	dawn		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location growth=Theme
4	grow		a year					nom growth «process intransitive»: poss=agent
5	grow		another year					nom growth «process intransitive»: poss=agent
6	grow		three years					nom growth «process intransitive»: poss=agent

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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