The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 86

He wondered what had become of the youth, who an hour before had guarded his treasure so fiercely; but, after all, that was no affair of his!

Who acts: Knight, youth, hour, all · What happens: wonder, become, hour, guard, be, treasure · To what, where: youth, treasure, affair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knight, youth, hour, all), 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 wondered	nsubj
2	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 become	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 become	aux
5	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 wondered	ccomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 youth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 youth	det
8	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 become	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hour	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 hour	nsubj
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hour	det
12	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 youth	appos
13	before	before	ADV	_	15 guarded	advmod
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 guarded	aux
15	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 hour	acl:relcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 treasure	nmod:poss
17	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 guarded	obj
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 fiercely	advmod
19	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	15 guarded	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 affair	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 affair	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 all	punct
23	after	after	ADP	_	24 all	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 affair	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 all	punct
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 all	obj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 affair	cop
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 affair	det
29	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wondered	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 his	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 affair	acl:relcl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 wondered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past	Knight			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	become	past · perfect		the youth		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	hour		the youth			tree rules
4	guard	past · perfect	a hour not said here	Knight's treasure	before, fiercely property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Beneficiary
5	is a	past	all	no affair		tree rules
6	treasure		Knight			nom treasure «possession 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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