The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 87
When the brother learned what had happened he was greatly distressed, and did not know what to do.
Who acts: brother · What happens: learn, happen, distress, not know, do · To what, where: brother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 learned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brother | det |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 learned | nsubj |
| 4 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | aux |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 learned | ccomp |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 distressed | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 distressed | aux:pass |
| 10 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 11 distressed | advmod |
| 11 | distressed | distress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 happened | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 know | cc |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 know | advmod |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 learned | conj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 do | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 know | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | the brother | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | distress | past · passive | brother | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | not know | past · do-support | the brother not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 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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