The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 28
By-and-by the boy grew big and tall, and seemed to lead a happy life in the house of his foster parents.
Who acts: boy · What happens: grow, seem, lead · To what, where: happy life, house
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (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 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 grew | mark |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grew | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 boy | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seemed | advcl |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grew | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tall | cc |
| 11 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 big | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seemed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seemed | cc |
| 14 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 lead | mark |
| 16 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seemed | xcomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 life | det |
| 18 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 life | amod |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lead | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 house | det |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lead | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 parents | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 parents | nmod:poss |
| 25 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 parents | compound |
| 26 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 house | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the boy | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | lead | to-infinitive | a happy life | the house of boy's foster parents | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent life=Theme in house=Destination |
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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