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The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 4

But as years passed away, his head grew weary of making plans of campaign, and his people wanted to stay at home and till their fields, and at last he too felt that he must do homage to the other emperor.

Who acts: years, head, people, king · What happens: pass away, grow, make, want, stay, feel · To what, where: plans, home, last, homage, campaign

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (years, head, people, king), 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

ccmarknsubjadvcladvmodpunctnmod:possnsubjxcompmarkadvclobjcasenmodpunctccnmod:possnsubjparataxismarkxcompcaseoblcccasenmod:possconjpunctcccaseoblnsubjadvmodconjmarknsubjauxxcompobjcasedetamodoblpunctrootButCCONJasSCONJyearsNOUNpassedVERBawayADV,PUNCThisPRONheadNOUNgrewVERBwearyADJofSCONJmakingVERBplansNOUNofADPcampaignNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhisPRONpeopleNOUNwantedVERBtoPARTstayVERBatADPhomeNOUNandCCONJtillADPtheirPRONfieldsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJatADPlastADJhePRONtooADVfeltVERBthatSCONJhePRONmustAUXdoVERBhomageNOUNtoADPtheDETotherADJemperorNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_9 grewcc
2asasSCONJ_4 passedmark
3yearsyearNOUNNumber=Plur4 passednsubj
4passedpassVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part9 grewadvcl
5awayawayADV_4 passedadvmod
6,,PUNCT_4 passedpunct
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 headnmod:poss
8headheadNOUNNumber=Sing9 grewnsubj
9grewgrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10wearywearyADJDegree=Pos9 grewxcomp
11ofofSCONJ_12 makingmark
12makingmakeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part10 wearyadvcl
13plansplanNOUNNumber=Plur12 makingobj
14ofofADP_15 campaigncase
15campaigncampaignNOUNNumber=Sing13 plansnmod
16,,PUNCT_20 wantedpunct
17andandCCONJ_20 wantedcc
18hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 peoplenmod:poss
19peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur20 wantednsubj
20wantedwantVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 grewparataxis
21totoPART_22 staymark
22staystayVERBVerbForm=Inf20 wantedxcomp
23atatADP_24 homecase
24homehomeNOUNNumber=Sing22 stayobl
25andandCCONJ_28 fieldscc
26tilltillADP_28 fieldscase
27theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 fieldsnmod:poss
28fieldsfieldNOUNNumber=Plur24 homeconj
29,,PUNCT_35 feltpunct
30andandCCONJ_35 feltcc
31atatADP_32 lastcase
32lastlastADJDegree=Pos35 feltobl
33hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 feltnsubj
34tootooADV_35 feltadvmod
35feltfeelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 wantedconj
36thatthatSCONJ_39 domark
37hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs39 donsubj
38mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin39 doaux
39dodoVERBVerbForm=Inf35 feltxcomp
40homagehomageNOUNNumber=Sing39 doobj
41totoADP_44 emperorcase
42thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art44 emperordet
43otherotherADJDegree=Pos44 emperoramod
44emperoremperorNOUNNumber=Sing39 doobl
45..PUNCT_9 grewpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1pass awayparticipleyearsaway propertyvn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2growpastking's headweary propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3makegerundking's head not said hereplans of campaignvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plan=Product
4wantpastking's peoplevn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5stay not said to happento-infinitiveking's people not said herehome and people's fieldsvn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
6feelpastkinglastvn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7domustkinghomageto the other emperorvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homage=Eventuality
8plancampaignnom plan «cognition transitive»: of=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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