The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 62
The children, wondering and delighted, repeated the words, but nothing happened.
Who acts: children · What happens: wonder, repeat, happen
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wondering | punct |
| 4 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 children | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 words | cc |
| 6 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 words | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 delighted | punct |
| 8 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 words | amod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 words | det |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 children | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 happened | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 happened | cc |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 happened | nsubj |
| 14 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | the children and the delighted repeated words not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | repeat | participle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | happen | past | the children and the delighted repeated words | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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