The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 174

Day by day the boy grew bigger, and one day as he was playing in the street with the other children, the ogress came by.

Who acts: Day, Halfman, ogress · What happens: grow, play, come by · To what, where: one day, street

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Day, Halfman, ogress), 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	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grew	nsubj
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 day	case
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Day	nmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 grew	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 day	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 day	cc
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 day	nummod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	obl:unmarked
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 playing	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 playing	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 playing	aux
15	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 day	acl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 street	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 street	det
18	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 playing	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 children	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 children	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 children	amod
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 playing	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ogress	det
25	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grew	conj
27	by	by	ADP	_	26 came	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Day by day			day	big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	play	past · progressive	Halfman	one day not said here	the street		with the other children	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent day=Theme with child=Co-Agent
3	come by	past	the ogress					vn escape-51.1-1 «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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