The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 54
Now at this very moment the younger brother was thinking of him, and wondering how he had got on during all the years since they had parted.
Who acts: younger brother, brother, limbs · What happens: think, wonder, get on, part · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (younger brother, brother, limbs), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 thinking | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 moment | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 moment | advmod |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thinking | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 brother | det |
| 7 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 brother | amod |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thinking | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thinking | aux |
| 10 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thinking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wondering | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wondering | cc |
| 15 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 thinking | parataxis |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 got | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 got | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 got | aux |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 wondering | ccomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 got | compound:prt |
| 21 | during | during | ADP | _ | 24 years | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 years | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 years | det |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 got | obl |
| 25 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 28 parted | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 parted | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 parted | aux |
| 28 | parted | part | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 got | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · progressive | the younger brother | now; moment | of man | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | get on | past · perfect | brother | year | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | part | past · perfect | limbs = limb | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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