The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 92
Meanwhile the mother at home was wondering what had become of her two sons, and as the hours went on, and their father never returned, she made up her mind to go and look for him.
Who acts: mother, hours, father · What happens: wonder, become, go on, not return, make up, go · To what, where: mind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, hours, 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 7 wondering | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mother | det |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wondering | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mother | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wondering | aux |
| 7 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 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 | 7 wondering | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sons | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sons | nmod:poss |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 sons | nummod |
| 14 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 become | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 went | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hours | det |
| 19 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wondering | parataxis |
| 21 | on | on | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 returned | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 returned | cc |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 returned | nsubj |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 returned | advmod |
| 27 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 went | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 made | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 made | nsubj |
| 30 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 went | conj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 made | compound:prt |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 mind | nmod:poss |
| 33 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 made | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 go | mark |
| 35 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 made | advcl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 look | cc |
| 37 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 go | conj |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 look | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wondering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past · progressive | the mother at home | meanwhile property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | become | past · perfect | of mother's two sons | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | go on | past | the hours | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not return | past | sons's father | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make up | past | mother | mother's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 6 | go | to-infinitive | mother not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | look | infinitive | mother not said here | for chief | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme | ||||
| 8 | mind | mother | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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