More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 20

And he wondered more and more, and he says to himself, "It must be something very nice.

Who acts: master, o · What happens: wonder, say, be · To what, where: master, something · 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, o), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 wondered	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wondered	nsubj
3	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 wondered	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 more	cc
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 more	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 says	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 says	nsubj
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wondered	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 himself	case
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 says	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 something	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 something	punct
15	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 something	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 something	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 something	cop
18	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 says	obl
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 nice	advmod
20	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 something	amod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wondered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past	master			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	present	master		master	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
3	is a in a quote	must	o	something		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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