The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 79

The pupils set off at once, wondering at the strangeness of their errand, and still more at the holiness of the jogi to whom such secrets were revealed.

Who acts: pupils · What happens: set off, wonder, reveal · To what, where: strangeness, such secrets

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pupils), 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 pupils	det
2	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 set	compound:prt
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 set	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wondering	punct
8	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 set	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 strangeness	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 strangeness	det
11	strangeness	strangeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wondering	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 errand	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 errand	nmod:poss
14	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 strangeness	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 holiness	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 holiness	cc
17	still	still	ADV	_	18 more	advmod
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 holiness	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 holiness	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 holiness	det
21	holiness	holiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 jogi	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 jogi	det
24	jogi	jogi	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 holiness	nmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 whom	case
26	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 jogi	nmod
27	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 secrets	amod
28	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 revealed	nsubj:pass
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 revealed	aux:pass
30	revealed	reveal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 whom	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	set off	past	the pupils			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wonder speech: ask	gerund	the pupils not said here		the strangeness of pupils's errand	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	reveal	past · passive		such secrets		vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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