The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 98

But the next time he ventured above ground, what was his surprise to find everything changed!

Who acts: thing, ground, everything · What happens: venture, be, find, change · To what, where: ground, surprise, everything

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, ground, everything), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 ventured	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ventured	obl:unmarked
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ventured	nsubj
6	ventured	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	above	above	ADP	_	8 ground	case
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ventured	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 surprise	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 surprise	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 surprise	cop
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 surprise	nmod:poss
13	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ground	appos
14	to	to	PART	_	15 find	mark
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 surprise	acl
16	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 find	obj
17	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 find	xcomp
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 ventured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	venture	past	thing		ground	time	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	ground	thing's surprise			tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive	thing not said here	everything			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent everything=Attribute clause=Theme
4	change	participle	everything not said here				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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