The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 13
Next day it was worse, and day by day it grew bigger and bigger till it was nearly as large as his head and became very painful.
Who acts: doubtless · What happens: be, grow, become
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubtless), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 worse | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 worse | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 worse | cop |
| 5 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 grew | cc |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 day | nmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 worse | conj |
| 13 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 grew | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bigger | cc |
| 15 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 bigger | conj |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 large | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 large | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 large | cop |
| 19 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 21 large | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 large | advmod |
| 21 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bigger | advcl |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 head | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 large | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 became | cc |
| 26 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 grew | conj |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 painful | advmod |
| 28 | painful | painful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 became | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 worse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | doubtless | day | bad property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow | past | doubtless | day | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | doubtless | as Hok's head; large, nearly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | become | past | doubtless not said here | painful property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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