The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 27
The neighbours wondered where all this sudden wealth had sprung from, but nobody knew about the head.
Who acts: neighbours, nobody · What happens: wonder, spring, know · To what, where: sudden wealth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbours, nobody), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 neighbours | det |
| 2 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wondered | nsubj |
| 3 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 sprung | advmod |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 wealth | det:predet |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 wealth | det |
| 7 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wealth | amod |
| 8 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sprung | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sprung | aux |
| 10 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wondered | ccomp |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 sprung | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knew | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 knew | cc |
| 14 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 knew | nsubj |
| 15 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wondered | parataxis |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 head | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 head | det |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 knew | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | the neighbours | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | spring | past · perfect · passive | all sudden wealth | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know | past | nobody | about the head | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about head=Stimulus |
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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