The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 66

They, too, had become almost like trees, and were growing to the deck, or to the masts, or to the sides of the vessel, or to whatever they had happened to be touching when the enchantment fell upon them.

Who acts: branches, whatever, enchantment · What happens: become, grow, happen, touch, fall

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (branches, whatever, enchantment), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 become	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 They	punct
3	too	too	ADV	_	6 become	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 too	punct
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 become	aux
6	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	almost	almost	ADV	_	8 like	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 trees	case
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 become	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 growing	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 growing	cc
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 growing	aux
13	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 become	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 deck	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 deck	det
16	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 growing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 masts	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 masts	cc
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 masts	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 masts	det
21	masts	mast	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 growing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sides	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 sides	cc
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 sides	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sides	det
26	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 growing	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 vessel	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 vessel	det
29	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sides	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 happened	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 happened	cc
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 whatever	case
33	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 happened	nsubj
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 happened	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 happened	aux
36	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 become	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	39 touching	mark
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 touching	aux
39	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 happened	advcl
40	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	43 fell	advmod
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 enchantment	det
42	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 fell	nsubj
43	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 touching	advcl
44	upon	upon	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 fell	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	become	past · perfect	branches = branch	like trees	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	grow	past · progressive		to the deck; to the masts; to the sides of the vessel	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	happen	past · perfect	whatever		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	touch	to-infinitive · progressive	whatever not said here		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall	past	the enchantment	upon branches = branch	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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