The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 31

Yes, he had been wrong, there was no doubt of that, and he did not quite know how it had come about.

Who acts: man, doubt · What happens: be, not know, come about, doubt · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, doubt), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 wrong	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wrong	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 wrong	cop
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 was	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	parataxis
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 doubt	det
11	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 was	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 that	case
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 doubt	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 know	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 know	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 know	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 know	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 know	advmod
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 know	advmod
20	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wrong	parataxis
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 come	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 come	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 know	ccomp
25	about	about	ADV	_	24 come	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wrong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	man			wrong property	tree rules
2	be	past	no doubt of that		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not know	past · do-support	man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	come about	past · perfect	doubt			about property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	doubt			that			nom doubt «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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