The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 56

Then he went back into the wood to sit in his trunk; but what had become of it?

Who acts: story · What happens: go back, sit, become · To what, where: wood, trunk

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sit	mark
9	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 trunk	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 trunk	nmod:poss
12	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sit	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 become	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 become	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 become	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 become	aux
17	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 went	parataxis
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 become	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	story	the wood	then		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	sit	to-infinitive	story not said here	story's trunk			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in trunk=Location
3	become	past · perfect				of trunk	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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