The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 25

‘What can have become of her?’ asked they, and at length the mother declared that she would wait no longer, and must go and see what had happened.

Who acts: others, mother · What happens: become, ask, declare, wait, go, see · To what, where: length · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, mother), 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 become	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 become	xcomp
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 become	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 become	aux
5	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 asked	parataxis
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 become	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 become	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 become	punct
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 declared	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 declared	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 length	case
15	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 declared	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mother	det
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 declared	nsubj
18	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 wait	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wait	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 wait	aux
22	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 declared	xcomp
23	no	no	ADV	_	24 longer	advmod
24	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 wait	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 go	cc
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
28	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 see	cc
30	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	28 go	conj
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 happened	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 happened	aux
33	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 see	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	become	can · perfect			of woman	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past	others = other			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	declare speech: other	past	the mother	length		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	wait	would	mother		long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	must				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	see	infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	happen	past · perfect				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 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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