The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 116
And so it went on, and the poor girl grew more and more miserable.
Who acts: heap, poor girl · What happens: go on, grow
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heap, poor girl), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 grew | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 girl | amod |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 grew | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 miserable | cc |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 miserable | advmod |
| 15 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 more | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | heap | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | the poor girl | 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 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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