The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 94

Wondering a little at what might be going to happen to him, the youth did as the ogre bade him, and when they reached the shore of the lake, the ogre turned and said to him:

Who acts: youth, ogre · What happens: wonder, go, happen, do, reach, turn · To what, where: little, man, ogre bade, shore, lake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, ogre), 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	Wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 did	advcl
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 little	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wondering	obj
4	at	at	SCONJ	_	8 going	mark
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 going	nsubj
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 going	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 going	aux
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Wondering	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 happen	mark
10	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 going	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 happen	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wondering	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 youth	det
15	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 did	nsubj
16	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	as	as	ADP	_	20 bade	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bade	det
19	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bade	compound
20	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 did	obj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bade	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 reached	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 reached	cc
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 reached	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 reached	nsubj
26	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 did	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 shore	det
28	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reached	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 lake	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 lake	det
31	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shore	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 turned	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ogre	det
34	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 turned	nsubj
35	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 lake	acl:relcl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 said	cc
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 turned	conj
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 said	obl
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	gerund	the youth not said here	a little		tree rules
2	go	might · progressive				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	happen	to-infinitive			man	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	past	the youth	the ogre bade		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bade=Eventuality
5	reach	past	ogre	the shore of the lake		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme
6	turn	past	the ogre	the lake not said here		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lake=Theme
7	say speech: assert	past	the ogre not said here		man	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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