The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 103

You may imagine how astonished he was to see his Herd-boy returning to him in this manner!

Who acts: You, BOY, Herd boy · What happens: imagine, see, return · To what, where: astonished, BOY, manner

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, BOY, Herd boy), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 imagine	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	aux
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 astonished	advmod
5	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 see	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 see	aux
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 imagine	ccomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 boy	nmod:poss
11	Herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 boy	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Herd	punct
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obj
14	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 boy	acl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 returning	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 manner	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 manner	det
19	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 returning	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	imagine	may	You				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see	past	BOY	astonished			tree rules
3	return	gerund	BOY's Herd boy not said here		BOY	this manner	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to he=Result

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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