--- title: Day by day it grew bigger and fatter, and at last one morning it sai… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Day by day it grew bigger and fatter, and at last one morning it said to Cola-Mattheo, the peasant, whom it always regarded as its father, ‘Dear papa, I am now of a suitable age and wish to marry.’ Who acts: Day, hole, I. 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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, hole, I), 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:pg7277:25:7 # text = Day by day it grew bigger and fatter, and at last one morning it said to Cola-Mattheo, the peasant, whom it always regarded as its father, ‘Dear papa, I am now of a suitable age and wish to marry.’ 1 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 by by ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 xcomp _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 fatter fat ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Cola Cola PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Mattheo Mattheo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 peasant peasant NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 obj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 28 advmod _ _ 28 regarded regard VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl:relcl _ _ 29 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 Dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 papa papa NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 38 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 39 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 43 advmod _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 suitable suitable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 conj _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | Day by day | | | | | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | hole | | Cola and Mattheo | | morning | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to cola=Recipient | | 3 | **regard** | participle · passive | | hole | | | | as hole's father; always *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme whom=Attribute | | 4 | **is** | present | I | | | | of a suitable age; now | | tree rules | | 5 | **wish** | present | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/8/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Snake](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/)