The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 81
As time passed the child grew fatter and stronger, and the old woman grew fond and proud of him.
Who acts: child, old woman · What happens: pass, grow
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Nothing Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, old woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 time | case |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grew | nsubj |
| 6 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 7 | fatter | fat | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 grew | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stronger | cc |
| 9 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 fatter | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 grew | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grew | nsubj |
| 15 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 16 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grew | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 proud | cc |
| 18 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fond | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 proud | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | the child | fat property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | the old woman | fond property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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 Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Project Gutenberg book 66596 (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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