The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 1
Meanwhile the poor brother walked wearily along, wondering what other dreadful adventures were in store for him.
Who acts: poor brother, other dreadful adventures · What happens: walk, wonder, be · To what, where: store
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor brother, other dreadful adventures), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 walked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brother | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | wearily | wearily | ADV | _ | 7 along | advmod |
| 7 | along | along | ADV | _ | 5 walked | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wondering | punct |
| 9 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 walked | advcl |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 wondering | obj |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 adventures | amod |
| 12 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 adventures | amod |
| 13 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 store | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 store | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 store | case |
| 16 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 store | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the poor brother | along, meanwhile property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | the poor brother not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | other dreadful adventures | store | for brother | tree rules |
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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