The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 4

“A trick?” repeated Father Grumbler, who began to understand what had happened.

Who acts: trick, Father · What happens: repeat, begin, understand, happen · To what, where: Father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trick, Father), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 trick	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 trick	det
3	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 trick	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 trick	punct
6	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 trick	acl
7	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 repeated	obj
8	Grumbler	Grumbler	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Father	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Father	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 understand	mark
13	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 happened	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 happened	aux
16	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 understand	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 trick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	repeat	participle	a trick not said here	Father	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Eventuality
2	begin	past	Father		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	understand	to-infinitive	Father not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	happen	past · perfect			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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