Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Philip Sidney., sentence 20

Was it any wonder that everybody wept when it was heard that he was dead?

Who acts: name, everybody, look · What happens: be, weep, hear · To what, where: wonder, name

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Philip Sidney.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, everybody, look), 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wonder	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wonder	nsubj
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 wonder	det
4	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 wept	obj
6	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 wept	nsubj
7	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wonder	acl:relcl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 heard	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	aux:pass
11	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wept	ccomp
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 dead	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 dead	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dead	cop
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 heard	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wonder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	name	any wonder		tree rules
2	weep	past	everybody	any wonder		tree rules
3	hear	past · passive		name		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
4	is	past	look		dead property	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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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