The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 56

‘I wonder what the ram thought when they ate him up,’ thought Walter to himself; and just then a cold shiver ran through him from his collar right down to his boots.

Who acts: I, ram, rams, cold shiver · What happens: wonder, think, eat up, run · To what, where: Walter, collar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ram, rams, cold shiver), 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	_	3 wonder	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wonder	nsubj
3	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 thought	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ram	det
6	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thought	nsubj
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wonder	ccomp
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 ate	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ate	nsubj
10	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	ccomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ate	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 ate	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wonder	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wonder	parataxis
16	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 thought	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 thought	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 ran	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ran	cc
21	just	just	ADV	_	22 then	advmod
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 ran	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 shiver	det
24	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 shiver	amod
25	shiver	shiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ran	nsubj
26	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wonder	parataxis
27	through	through	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ran	obl
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 collar	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 collar	nmod:poss
31	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ran	obl
32	right	right	ADV	_	33 down	advmod
33	down	down	ADV	_	26 ran	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 boots	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 boots	nmod:poss
36	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 down	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wonder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	present	I						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	past	the ram						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme
3	eat up	past	rams = ram	Walter					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	think speech: other	past		Walter	Walter				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot walter=Theme
5	run	past	a cold shiver			Walter's collar	then	through Walter; down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through he=Initial_Location from collar=Trajectory

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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