The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 82

And while these things were happening, what had become of the white doe?

Who acts: things · What happens: happen, become

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 happening	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 happening	mark
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 things	det
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 happening	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happening	aux
6	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 become	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 become	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 become	aux
10	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 happening	parataxis
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 doe	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 doe	det
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 doe	amod
14	doe	doe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 become	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 happening	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past · progressive	this things						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	past · perfect						of the white doe	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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 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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