The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 44
The children grew up both tall and handsome, and the foals and the lilies grew with them.
Who acts: children, foals · What happens: grow up, grow
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, foals), 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 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grew | compound:prt |
| 5 | both | both | ADV | _ | 6 tall | advmod |
| 6 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 handsome | cc |
| 8 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tall | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grew | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 grew | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 foals | det |
| 12 | foals | foal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 grew | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lilies | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lilies | det |
| 15 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 foals | conj |
| 16 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 grew | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | the children | tall property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | the foals and the lilies | with lilies = lily | 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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