The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 13

Mark was very much surprised; he thought, and thought, and in the morning he drove to the next village to try and find out if such a child really had been born.

Who acts: Mark · What happens: be, think, drive, try, find out, bear · To what, where: next village, child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mark), 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	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 surprised	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 surprised	advmod
5	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thought	nsubj
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thought	cc
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 drove	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 drove	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 morning	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 morning	det
16	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drove	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 drove	nsubj
18	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	ccomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 village	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 village	det
21	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 village	amod
22	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drove	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 try	mark
24	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 drove	advcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 find	cc
26	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 try	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 find	compound:prt
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 born	mark
29	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	31 child	det:predet
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 child	det
31	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 born	nsubj:pass
32	really	really	ADV	_	35 born	advmod
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 born	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 born	aux:pass
35	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 find	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mark				surprised property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	Mark					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past	Mark not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	drive	past	Mark		the next village	morning		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to village=Trajectory
5	try	to-infinitive	Mark not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	find out	infinitive	Mark not said here					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
7	bear a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		such child				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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