The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 85

At first he was so surprised he didn’t know what to think, but after a time he grew a little uncomfortable, and went to an old witch to ask for advice.

Who acts: speck · What happens: be, not know, think, grow, go, ask · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (speck), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 surprised	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 surprised	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 surprised	advmod
6	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 know	aux
9	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 know	advmod
10	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 surprised	parataxis
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 think	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 think	mark
13	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 know	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grew	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 grew	cc
16	after	after	ADP	_	18 time	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 time	det
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grew	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 grew	nsubj
20	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 know	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 little	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 uncomfortable	obl:unmarked
23	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 grew	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 went	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 went	cc
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 grew	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 witch	case
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 witch	det
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 witch	amod
30	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 went	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 ask	mark
32	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 went	advcl
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 advice	case
34	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ask	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	speck		surprised property	tree rules
2	not know	past · do-support	speck			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
4	grow	past	speck	time	uncomfortable property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	past	speck not said here		to a old witch	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to witch=Initial_Location
6	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	speck not said here		for advice	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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