The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 127

The only puzzle was how he could do so much, working all alone, and also why he worked with closed doors.

Who acts: only puzzle, Labakan · What happens: be, work, close

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (only puzzle, Labakan), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 puzzle	det
2	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 puzzle	amod
3	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	cop
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 do	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADV	_	8 do	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 working	punct
12	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 do	advcl
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 alone	advmod
14	alone	alone	ADV	_	12 working	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 why	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 why	cc
17	also	also	ADV	_	18 why	advmod
18	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 working	acl:relcl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 worked	nsubj
20	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 why	ccomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 doors	case
22	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 doors	amod
23	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 worked	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	could · past	the only puzzle	do property	tree rules
2	work	gerund	the only puzzle not said here	alone property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	work	past	Labakan	with closed doors	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with door=Co-Agent
4	close	participle			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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