The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 38

The charcoal-burner and his wife both stared at him for a moment, as if they could hardly believe their ears; and, indeed, it was not to be wondered at!

Who acts: charcoal burner, burner · What happens: stare, believe, not wonder · To what, where: ears, thing

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (charcoal burner, burner), 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	4 burner	det
2	charcoal	charcoal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burner	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 charcoal	punct
4	burner	burner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stared	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wife	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burner	conj
8	both	both	ADV	_	9 stared	advmod
9	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stared	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 moment	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 moment	det
14	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stared	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 believe	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 believe	mark
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 believe	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 believe	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 believe	aux
20	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	21 believe	advmod
21	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 stared	parataxis
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 ears	nmod:poss
23	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 believe	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 wondered	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 wondered	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 and	punct
27	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	34 wondered	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 wondered	punct
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 wondered	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 wondered	aux:pass
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 wondered	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	34 wondered	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 wondered	aux:pass
34	wondered	wonder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 stared	parataxis
35	at	at	ADP	_	34 wondered	obl
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 stared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stare	past	the charcoal burner and Paradise's wife		moment	at Paradise; both property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	believe a condition, not said to happen	could	burner	burner's ears		hardly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Stimulus
3	not wonder speech: ask	past · passive		thing		indeed property	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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