The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 80

The lady then removed the lid, and it was marvellous to watch the castle, houses, and farmyards begin to grow and spread themselves till they had regained their proper size.

Who acts: lady, lid, farmyards · What happens: remove, be, watch, begin, grow, spread · To what, where: lid, castle, farmyards, proper size

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, lid, farmyards), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 removed	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 removed	advmod
4	removed	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lid	det
6	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 removed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 marvellous	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 marvellous	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 marvellous	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 marvellous	cop
11	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 removed	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 watch	mark
13	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 marvellous	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 castle	det
15	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 watch	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 houses	punct
17	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 castle	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 begin	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 begin	cc
20	farmyards	farmyard	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 begin	nsubj
21	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 removed	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 grow	mark
23	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 begin	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 spread	cc
25	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 grow	conj
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 spread	obj
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 regained	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 regained	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 regained	aux
30	regained	regain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 spread	advcl
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 size	nmod:poss
32	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 size	amod
33	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 regained	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 removed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	remove	past	the lady	the lid	then		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme
2	is	past	lid			marvellous property	tree rules
3	watch	to-infinitive	lid not said here	the castle and houses			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme
4	begin	present	farmyards				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	grow	to-infinitive	farmyards not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	spread	infinitive	farmyards not said here	farmyards = farmyard			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme
7	regain	past · perfect	farmyards = farmyard	farmyards's proper size			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=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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