The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 10

The bride promised to be careful, but in a little while, when there was nothing left for her to do, she began to wonder what could be in the chest, which was opened by the key.

Who acts: bride, nothing · What happens: promise, be, leave, do, begin, wonder · To what, where: chest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride, nothing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bride	det
2	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 promised	nsubj
3	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 careful	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 careful	cop
6	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 promised	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 while	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 while	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 while	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 while	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 while	amod
12	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 promised	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 was	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 was	advmod
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 was	expl
16	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 while	parataxis
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 was	nsubj
18	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 nothing	acl
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 do	mark
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 do	nsubj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 do	mark
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 left	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 began	nsubj
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 promised	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 wonder	mark
27	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 chest	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 chest	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 chest	cop
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 chest	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 chest	det
33	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wonder	ccomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 opened	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 opened	nsubj:pass
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 opened	aux:pass
37	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 chest	acl
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 key	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 key	det
40	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 opened	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	the bride			while		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	the bride not said here				careful property	tree rules
3	be	past	nothing		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leave	participle						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	do	to-infinitive	bride					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	begin	past	bride					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	wonder speech: ask	to-infinitive	bride not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is	could			the chest			tree rules
9	open	past · passive		the chest			by the key	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme by key=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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