The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 130
But what happened to little Gerda when Kay did not come back?
Who acts: Kay · What happens: happen, not come back · To what, where: little Gerda
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 happened | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Gerda | case |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Gerda | amod |
| 6 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | obl |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 come | advmod |
| 8 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 come | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 come | advmod |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 happened | conj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 come | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | little Gerda | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not come back | past · do-support | Kay | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/8/130/