The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 48

But when the basket did stop, the young man forgot what he had been told, and put his head out to see what was the matter.

Who acts: basket, young man · What happens: do, stop, forget, tell, put out, see · To what, where: man, head, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (basket, young man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 forgot	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 did	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 basket	det
4	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 forgot	advcl
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 did	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 forgot	nsubj
11	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 forgot	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 told	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 told	aux:pass
16	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 what	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 put	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 put	cc
19	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 forgot	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obj
22	out	out	ADV	_	19 put	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 see	mark
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 put	advcl
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 matter	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 matter	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 matter	det
28	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 see	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the basket			tree rules
2	stop	infinitive	the basket not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	forget	past	the young man			tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	put out	past	the young man not said here	man's head	out property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal
6	see	to-infinitive	the young man not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a	past		the matter		tree rules

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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