The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 65

But who could ever guess what came out of that nut?

What happens: guess, come out · To what, where: nut · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	5 guess	cc
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 guess	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 guess	aux
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 guess	advmod
5	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 guess	ccomp
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 nut	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 nut	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 nut	det
11	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 guess	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	could					ever		vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come out	past		that nut					vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient nut=Result

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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