English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 4

But it was long before he came home, and the boy had grown a nice little laddie.

Who acts: last, boy · What happens: be, grow · To what, where: nice little laddie

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, boy), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 came	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	cop
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 came	advmod
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grown	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 grown	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grown	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 grown	aux
14	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 came	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 laddie	det
16	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 laddie	amod
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 laddie	amod
18	laddie	laddie	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grown	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	last					come, home, long property	tree rules
2	grow	past · perfect	the boy	a nice little laddie					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location laddie=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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