The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 64

He repeated them, as well as he could remember, and waited to see what would happen.

Who acts: Hare · What happens: repeat, remember, wait, see, happen · To what, where: words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare), 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	2 repeated	nsubj
2	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 repeated	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 remember	punct
5	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	10 remember	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 as	fixed
7	as	as	ADP	_	5 as	fixed
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 remember	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 remember	aux
10	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 repeated	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 waited	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 waited	cc
13	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 repeated	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 waited	advcl
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 happen	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 happen	aux
18	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 see	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	repeat	past	Hare	words = word	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
2	remember	could	Hare		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	wait	past	Hare not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	Hare not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	happen	would			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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