Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 2
As the Boy grew up, his Mother grew more and more fond of him, and disliked parting from him even for a moment.
Who acts: Boy, Mother · What happens: grow up, grow, dislike, part
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boy, Mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 grew | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Boy | det |
| 3 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grew | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 grew | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 grew | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fond | cc |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 fond | advmod |
| 13 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grew | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fond | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 disliked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 disliked | cc |
| 18 | disliked | dislike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grew | conj |
| 19 | parting | part | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 disliked | xcomp |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 parting | obl |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 moment | advmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 moment | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 moment | det |
| 25 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 parting | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | the Boy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | Boy's Mother | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dislike | past | Boy's Mother not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | part | gerund | Boy's Mother not said here | moment | from Boy | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from he=Co-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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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