The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 38

The sorcerer had just closed his third wallet, and was beginning to wonder if he could carry away any more treasures when a low murmur as of a distant storm broke upon his ears.

Who acts: procession, low murmur · What happens: close, begin, wonder, carry away, break · To what, where: sorcerer, more treasures, ears

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (procession, low murmur), 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 sorcerer	det
2	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 closed	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 closed	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 closed	advmod
5	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wallet	nmod:poss
7	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 wallet	amod
8	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 closed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 beginning	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 beginning	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 beginning	aux
12	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 closed	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 wonder	mark
14	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 beginning	xcomp
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 carry	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 carry	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 carry	aux
18	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wonder	ccomp
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 carry	advmod
20	any	any	ADV	_	21 more	advmod
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 treasures	amod
22	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 carry	obj
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 broke	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 murmur	det
25	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 murmur	amod
26	murmur	murmur	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 broke	nsubj
27	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	31 storm	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	27 as	fixed
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 storm	det
30	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 storm	amod
31	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 murmur	nmod
32	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 carry	advcl
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 ears	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 ears	nmod:poss
35	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 broke	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 closed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	close	past · perfect · passive		the sorcerer			tree rules
2	begin	past · progressive					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	wonder speech: ask	to-infinitive					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	carry away a condition, not said to happen	could	procession	more treasures		away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme
5	break	past	a low murmur as a distant storm		procession's ears		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ear=Location

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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