--- title: Day by day her heart grew heavier and her cheeks paler, and one even… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Day by day her heart grew heavier and her cheeks paler, and one evening, when she had waited for him in vain, she put her water-pot on her shoulder and went slowly down to the spring. Who acts: Day, Tephany. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Day, Tephany), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3454:32:73 # text = Day by day her heart grew heavier and her cheeks paler, and one evening, when she had waited for him in vain, she put her water-pot on her shoulder and went slowly down to the spring. 1 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 by by ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 xcomp _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 cheeks cheek NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 paler pale ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 when when SCONJ WRB _ 20 mark _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 waited wait VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 acl:relcl _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 29 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 37 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 down down ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | Day by day | | | | evening | heavy *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **wait** | past · perfect | Tephany | | | vain | | for Denis | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vain=Location | | 3 | **put** | past | Tephany | Tephany's water pot | | Tephany's shoulder | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme on shoulder=Destination | | 4 | **go down** | past | Tephany *not said here* | | | | spring | down, slowly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/32/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/32/74/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/32/)