The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 67

I wonder whether the trees will come from the wood to see me, or if the sparrows will fly against the window panes?

Who acts: I, trees, sparrows · What happens: wonder, come, see, fly · To what, where: wood, me, window panes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, trees, sparrows), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wonder	nsubj
2	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	7 come	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trees	det
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wonder	ccomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 wood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wood	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 come	advcl
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 see	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fly	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 fly	cc
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 fly	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sparrows	det
18	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fly	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 fly	aux
20	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wonder	conj
21	against	against	ADP	_	24 panes	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 panes	det
23	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 panes	compound
24	panes	pane	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fly	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wonder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	present	I			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come	future	the trees		the wood	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wood=Initial_Location
3	see	to-infinitive	the trees not said here	me		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
4	fly a condition, not said to happen	future	the sparrows		the window panes	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against pane=Location

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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