The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 63

But all the same it is rather odd, and one can’t help wondering what is inside.’

Who acts: thing, one · What happens: be, not help, wonder · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (thing, one), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 same	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 same	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 same	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 odd	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 odd	cop
7	rather	rather	ADV	_	8 odd	advmod
8	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 same	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 help	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 help	cc
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 help	nsubj
12	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 help	aux
13	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 help	advmod
14	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 same	conj
15	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 help	xcomp
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 inside	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 inside	cop
18	inside	inside	ADV	_	15 wondering	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 same	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 same	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	thing	odd property	tree rules
2	not help	can	one		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	wonder speech: ask not said to happen	gerund	one not said here		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present		inside 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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