The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 43

The boy lived on with the monks, and grew up to be a clever, gentle, and handsome young man.

Who acts: boy · What happens: live on, grow up, be

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 lived	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 monks	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 monks	det
7	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grew	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grew	cc
10	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 grew	compound:prt
12	to	to	PART	_	15 clever	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 clever	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 clever	det
15	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grew	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gentle	punct
17	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 clever	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 man	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 man	cc
20	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 clever	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	live on	past	the boy	with the monks	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with monk=Location
2	grow up	past	the boy not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	clever property	tree rules
4	be		the boy not said here		tree rules

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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