The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 7

Day by day it grew bigger and fatter, and at last one morning it said to Cola-Mattheo, the peasant, whom it always regarded as its father, ‘Dear papa, I am now of a suitable age and wish to marry.’

Who acts: Day, hole, I · What happens: grow, say, regard, be, wish, marry · To what, where: Cola, hole · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Day, hole, I), 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	5 grew	nsubj
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 day	case
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Day	nmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 grew	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fatter	cc
8	fatter	fat	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 bigger	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 morning	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 morning	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 morning	compound
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Cola	case
18	Cola	Cola	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	obl
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Mattheo	punct
20	Mattheo	Mattheo	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Cola	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 peasant	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 peasant	det
23	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Cola	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 regarded	punct
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 regarded	obj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 regarded	nsubj:pass
27	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 regarded	advmod
28	regarded	regard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 peasant	acl:relcl
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 father	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 father	nmod:poss
31	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 regarded	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 papa	punct
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 papa	punct
34	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 papa	amod
35	papa	papa	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 father	appos
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 age	punct
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 age	nsubj
38	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 age	cop
39	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 age	advmod
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 age	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 age	det
42	suitable	suitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 age	amod
43	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 wish	cc
45	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 age	conj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 marry	mark
47	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 wish	xcomp
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	43 age	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	43 age	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Day by day				big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	hole		Cola and Mattheo	morning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to cola=Recipient
3	regard	participle · passive		hole			as hole's father; always property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme whom=Attribute
4	is	present	I			of a suitable age; now		tree rules
5	wish	present	I not said here					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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