More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 118

Well, he was bothered with it; he could not see how all this had come about.

Who acts: One, this · What happens: bother, not see, come about · To what, where: One · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, this), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 bothered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bothered	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bothered	aux:pass
5	bothered	bother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bothered	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 see	advmod
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bothered	conj
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 come	advmod
14	all	all	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 come	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
17	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 see	ccomp
18	about	about	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bothered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bother	past · passive		One	with ash	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	not see	could	One			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	come about	past · perfect	this		about, all property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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