The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 64

Then they wrung their hands miserably, for they guessed why he had come, and how he was going to try to win the Terrible Head.

Who acts: eyes, boy · What happens: wring, guess, come, go, try, win · To what, where: hands, Terrible Head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, boy), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 wrung	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrung	nsubj
3	wrung	wring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wrung	obj
6	miserably	miserably	ADV	_	3 wrung	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 guessed	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 guessed	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 guessed	nsubj
10	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wrung	conj
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 come	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 guessed	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 going	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 going	cc
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 going	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 going	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 going	aux
20	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 wrung	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 try	mark
22	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 going	xcomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 win	mark
24	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 try	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Head	det
26	Terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Head	amod
27	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 win	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wrung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wring	past	eyes = eye	eyes's hands	then	miserably property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	guess	past	eyes = eye				vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	past · perfect	boy				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past · progressive	boy				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	try	to-infinitive	boy not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	win not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy not said here	the Terrible Head			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality

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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