More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 19

But after awhile, as his master didn't come back, he began to look at the covered dish, and to wonder whatever was in it.

Who acts: master, whatever · What happens: not come back, begin, look, cover, wonder, be · To what, where: o · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, whatever), 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	_	14 began	cc
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 awhile	case
3	awhile	awhile	ADV	_	14 began	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 come	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 master	nmod:poss
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 come	advmod
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 awhile	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 look	mark
16	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 dish	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dish	det
19	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 dish	amod
20	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 look	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wonder	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wonder	cc
23	to	to	PART	_	24 wonder	mark
24	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 look	conj
25	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 it	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 it	cop
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wonder	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not come back	past · do-support	man's master			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	master		awhile property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	look	to-infinitive	master not said here		at the covered dish	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dish=Theme
4	cover	participle				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	wonder speech: ask	to-infinitive	master not said here			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	whatever	o		tree rules

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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