The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 26

So no wonder the youth trembled and turned pale when he heard what lay before him.

Who acts: wonder, youth · What happens: tremble, turn, hear, lie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wonder, youth), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 trembled	advmod
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 wonder	det
3	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trembled	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youth	det
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trembled	nsubj
6	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 turned	cc
8	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trembled	conj
9	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 turned	xcomp
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 heard	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 turned	advcl
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 lay	nsubj
14	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	ccomp
15	before	before	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lay	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 trembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	tremble	past	no wonder			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn	past	no wonder not said here		pale property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	past	youth			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	lie	past		before youth		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location

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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