The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 11

“I wonder what is inside it,” he thought, and dipped a lock of his hair in, and the hair became just as if it were all made of copper.

Who acts: I, Prince, hair · What happens: wonder, be, think, dip in, become, make · To what, where: cauldron, lock, hair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Prince, hair), 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 it	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 it	cop
6	inside	inside	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wonder	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wonder	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 wonder	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wonder	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dipped	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dipped	cc
14	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	ccomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lock	det
16	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dipped	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 hair	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hair	nmod:poss
19	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lock	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	14 dipped	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 became	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 became	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hair	det
24	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 became	nsubj
25	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	parataxis
26	just	just	ADV	_	27 as	advmod
27	as	as	ADV	_	25 became	advmod
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 made	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 made	nsubj:pass
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 made	aux:pass
31	all	all	ADV	_	32 made	advmod
32	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 became	advcl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 copper	case
34	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wonder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask in a quote	present	I				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	is in a quote	present			cauldron		tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	Prince				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	dip in	past		a lock of Prince's hair			vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lock=Theme
5	become	past	the hair				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	make a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		hair		of copper; all property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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