The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 82

He was already a long distance from the island when the witch, who wondered what had become of her daughter, went to the door to look for her.

Who acts: Pinkel, witch · What happens: be, wonder, become, go, look · To what, where: long distance, island, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pinkel, witch), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 distance	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 distance	cop
3	already	already	ADV	_	6 distance	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 distance	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 distance	amod
6	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 island	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 island	det
9	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 distance	nmod
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 went	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 witch	det
12	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wondered	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 wondered	nsubj
15	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 witch	acl:relcl
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 become	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 become	aux
18	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 wondered	ccomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 daughter	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 daughter	nmod:poss
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 become	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 distance	acl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 door	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 door	det
26	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 look	mark
28	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 went	advcl
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 look	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 distance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Pinkel	a long distance	the island		tree rules
2	wonder speech: ask	past	the witch				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	become	past · perfect				of witch's daughter	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	go	past	the witch		the door		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
5	look	to-infinitive	the witch not said here			for witch	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for she=Theme

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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