The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 75

But now I too have grown old, and my master has forgotten me, and there is no reason to care whether my coat is dull or shining.

Who acts: I, master, reason, coat · What happens: grow, forget, be, care, shine · To what, where: me

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 (I, master, reason, coat), 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	_	6 grown	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 grown	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 grown	nsubj
4	too	too	ADV	_	6 grown	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 grown	aux
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grown	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 forgotten	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 forgotten	cc
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 master	nmod:poss
11	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forgotten	nsubj
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 forgotten	aux
13	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 grown	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 forgotten	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 is	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 is	cc
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 is	expl
18	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 grown	conj
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 reason	det
20	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 is	nsubj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 care	mark
22	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 reason	acl
23	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	27 dull	mark
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 coat	nmod:poss
25	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dull	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 dull	cop
27	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 care	advcl
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 shining	cc
29	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 dull	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present · perfect	I			now	old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	forget	present · perfect	my master	me				tree rules
3	be	present	no reason		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	care	to-infinitive	no reason not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present	my coat				dull property	tree rules
6	shine	gerund	my coat not said here					vn light_emission-43.1 «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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