The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 27

At last he dreamed of nothing else, and grew thinner day by day till his parents inquired what was the matter, promising to do all they could to make him as happy as he once was.

Who acts: son, parents · What happens: dream, grow, inquire, be, promise, do · To what, where: last, matter, son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, parents), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dreamed	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dreamed	nsubj
4	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 nothing	case
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 dreamed	obl
7	else	else	ADV	_	6 nothing	advmod
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	4 dreamed	conj
11	thinner	thin	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grew	obl:unmarked
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 day	case
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grew	obl
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 inquired	mark
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 parents	nmod:poss
17	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 inquired	nsubj
18	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 grew	advcl
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 matter	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 matter	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 matter	det
22	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 inquired	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 promising	punct
24	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 inquired	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 do	mark
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 promising	xcomp
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 could	det
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 could	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 do	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 make	mark
31	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 could	advcl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 make	obj
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 happy	advmod
34	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 make	xcomp
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 was	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 was	nsubj
37	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	38 was	advmod
38	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 happy	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dreamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dream	past	son		last		of nothing	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	grow	past	son not said here			day		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	inquire speech: other	past	son's parents					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past		the matter				tree rules
5	promise speech: promise	gerund	son's parents not said here					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	son's parents not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	make	to-infinitive	son's parents not said here	son			happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
8	be	past	son				once property	vn exist-47.1 «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 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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