The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 17

As he grew older he became more self-willed and disobedient, and his manner to his mother was often very rude, and his temper to the other chickens very disagreeable.

Who acts: Medio, manner · What happens: grow, become, will, be, temper · To what, where: more

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Medio, manner), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 grew	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 became	advcl
4	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grew	xcomp
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 became	nsubj
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 willed	nsubj:pass
8	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 willed	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 self	punct
10	willed	will	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 became	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 disobedient	cc
12	disobedient	disobedient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 willed	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rude	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rude	cc
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 manner	nmod:poss
16	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rude	nsubj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 mother	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 manner	nmod
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 rude	cop
21	often	often	ADV	_	23 rude	advmod
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 rude	advmod
23	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 became	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 temper	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 temper	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 temper	nmod:poss
27	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rude	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 chickens	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 chickens	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 chickens	amod
31	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 temper	nmod
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 disagreeable	advmod
33	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 chickens	amod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Medio		old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	past	Medio			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	will	participle · passive		more		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
4	is	past	Medio's manner to Medio's mother		Medio's temper to the other chickens obl; often, rude property	tree rules
5	temper		Medio		to the other chickens	nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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