The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 118

The young man who, unlike most of his tribe, was afraid of his wife, returned to his bed without having seen anything, but wondering very much what she could be doing all this time.

Who acts: young man, wife · What happens: be, return, have, see, wonder, do · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, wife), 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 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 returned	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 afraid	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 afraid	punct
6	unlike	unlike	ADP	_	7 most	case
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 afraid	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 tribe	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tribe	nmod:poss
10	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 afraid	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tribe	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 afraid	cop
13	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	acl:relcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 wife	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 afraid	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wife	punct
18	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 bed	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bed	nmod:poss
21	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 returned	obl
22	without	without	SCONJ	_	23 having	mark
23	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 returned	advcl
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 anything	amod
25	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 having	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wondering	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 wondering	cc
28	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 returned	advcl
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 much	advmod
30	much	much	ADV	_	31 what	advmod
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 doing	obj
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 doing	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 doing	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 doing	aux
35	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 wondering	ccomp
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 time	det:predet
37	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 time	det
38	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 doing	obl:unmarked
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the young man			unlike most; of man's tribe; of man's wife; afraid property	tree rules
2	return	past	the young man			to man's bed result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result
3	have	gerund	the young man not said here	anything			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
4	see	participle					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	wonder speech: ask	gerund	the young man not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	do	could · progressive	wife		time		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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