The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 64

“What is the matter with the thing?” cried the father at last, snatching the basket from them, and turning it all over, grumbling and swearing while he did so, under the eyes of his astonished wife and children, who did not know whether to cry or to laugh.

Who acts: matter, astonished wife · What happens: be, cry, snatch, turn, grumble, swear · To what, where: matter, father, last, basket, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (matter, astonished wife), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 matter	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 matter	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 matter	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 matter	det
5	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 thing	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 matter	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 father	det
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cried	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 snatching	punct
17	snatching	snatch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 cried	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 basket	det
19	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 snatching	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 snatching	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 turning	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 turning	cc
24	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 cried	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 turning	obj
26	all	all	ADV	_	27 over	advmod
27	over	over	ADV	_	24 turning	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 grumbling	punct
29	grumbling	grumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 turning	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 swearing	cc
31	swearing	swear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 grumbling	conj
32	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 did	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 did	nsubj
34	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 grumbling	advcl
35	so	so	ADV	_	34 did	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 eyes	punct
37	under	under	ADP	_	39 eyes	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 eyes	det
39	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 turning	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 wife	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 wife	nmod:poss
42	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 wife	amod
43	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 eyes	nmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 children	cc
45	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 wife	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 know	punct
47	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 know	nsubj
48	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 know	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 know	advmod
50	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 wife	parataxis
51	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	53 cry	mark
52	to	to	PART	_	53 cry	mark
53	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 know	xcomp
54	or	or	CCONJ	_	56 laugh	cc
55	to	to	PART	_	56 laugh	mark
56	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 cry	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the matter		with the thing	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	the matter	the father	last		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Topic
3	snatch	gerund	the matter not said here	the basket		from children = child	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent basket=Theme from they=Source
4	turn	gerund		basket	the eyes of matter's astonished wife and children	over property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	grumble speech: other	gerund					vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	swear	gerund					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	do	past	matter				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	not know	past · do-support	matter's astonished wife and children				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	matter's astonished wife and children not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	laugh	to-infinitive	matter's astonished wife and children not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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