The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 24

As, however, man after man vanished without leaving any trace, he began to grow uncomfortable and to wonder if the queen could have anything to do with it.

Who acts: man, king, queen · What happens: vanish, leave, begin, grow, wonder, have · To what, where: trace, anything

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, king, queen), 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	As	as	ADV	_	3 however	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 As	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	8 vanished	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 vanished	nsubj
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 man	case
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	nmod
8	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	10 leaving	mark
10	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 vanished	advcl
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 trace	det
12	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leaving	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 vanished	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 grow	mark
17	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grow	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wonder	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 wonder	mark
21	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 grow	conj
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 have	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 queen	det
24	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 have	aux
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wonder	ccomp
27	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 have	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 do	mark
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 anything	acl
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 do	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 vanished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	man after man		however property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	gerund	man after man not said here	any trace		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Theme
3	begin	past	king			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	grow	to-infinitive	king not said here		uncomfortable property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wonder speech: ask	to-infinitive	king not said here			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	have a condition, not said to happen	could	the queen	anything		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
7	do	to-infinitive	the queen not said here	anything not said here	with trace	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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